Personality and politics: Values, traits, and political choice

Political Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-28

  Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^a   Schwartz, Shalom ^b   Capanna, Cristina ^a   Vecchione, Michele ^a   Barbaranelli, Claudio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Five Factor Model; Personality; Political Choice; Traits; Values; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047690173     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00447.x     Document Type: Review

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