Personal values and political activism: A cross-national study

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 84-106

  Vecchione, Michele ^a   Schwartz, Shalom H ^b,c   Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^a   Schoen, Harald ^d   Cieciuch, Jan ^e,f   Silvester, Jo ^g   Bain, Paul ^h   Bianchi, Gabriel ⁱ   Kirmanoglu, Hasan ^j   Baslevent, Cem ^j   Mamali, Catalin ^k   Manzi, Jorge ^l   Pavlopoulos, Vassilis ^m   Posnova, Tetyana ⁿ   Torres, Claudio ^o   Verkasalo, Markku ^p   Lönnqvist, Jan Erik ^p   Vondráková, Eva ^q   Welzel, Christian ^r   Alessandri, Guido ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^j ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE   (United States)

^l PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

ⁿ CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^p UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^q Constantine the Philosopher University of Nitra ^*  (Slovakia)

^r LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Cross cultural; Participation; Political activism; Values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL VALUES; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921000172     PISSN: 00071269     EISSN: 20448295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12067     Document Type: Article

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