Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Bo Ekehammar - Stockholm University, Department of Psychology
Description
The central aim of the study is looking at various aspects of political perception as a function of socio-political ideology. The politically percepted objects consists mainly of political parties, party-leaders and countries. The measurement of political perception is made through multi-dimensional scaling, semantic differential and political differential. Political ideology is operationalized through party affiliation and socio-political attitude (measured with a specially designed scale). From these data some indexes are generated on the individual level for cognitive articulation and cognitive differentiation which then are related to the individual's socio-political ideology. The first part of the study contains questions about attitudes to various phenomena in society, socio-economical questions, party preferences (own, parents), education of relatives, estimation of: left-right, religiosity and extremism. The second part (where the sample is a subgroup of the first part's sample) contains the same questions plus estimations of: some Swedish politicians, countries (Sweden, USA, the Sovie
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Political behaviour and attitudes, Youth, Social behaviour and attitudes
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Principal organisation
Accessibility status
Responsible department/unit
Stockholm University, Department of Psychology
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Bo Ekehammar - Stockholm University, Department of Psychology
Identifiers
SND-ID: SND 0210
Description
The central aim of the study is looking at various aspects of political perception as a function of socio-political ideology. The politically percepted objects consists mainly of political parties, party-leaders and countries. The measurement of political perception is made through multi-dimensional scaling, semantic differential and political differential. Political ideology is operationalized through party affiliation and socio-political attitude (measured with a specially designed scale). From these data some indexes are generated on the individual level for cognitive articulation and cognitive differentiation which then are related to the individual's socio-political ideology. The first part of the study contains questions about attitudes to various phenomena in society, socio-economical questions, party preferences (own, parents), education of relatives, estimation of: left-right, religiosity and extremism. The second part (where the sample is a subgroup of the first part's sample) contains the same questions plus estimations of: some Swedish politicians, countries (Sweden, USA, the Sovie
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Swedish
Time period(s) investigated
1975-01-01
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Geographic description: Suburbs of Stockholm.
Unit of analysis
Funding
Swedish Council for Research in the Humanitie and Social Sciences — Ref. F 840/79
Subject area
Political behaviour and attitudes, Youth, Social behaviour and attitudes
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Ekehammar, B., Sidanius, J., & Nilsson, I. (1982) Evaluative perceptions of politicians across time. Stockholm: Department of Psychology.
Libris
Ekehammar, B., & Nilsson, I. (1985) The positivity bias: A general effect in social perception? Stockholm: Department of Psychology.
Google Books
Ekehammar, B., Sidanius, J., & Nilsson, I. (1981) Politikerförakt? En explorativ studie i politisk perception. Stockholm: Department of Psychology.
Google Books
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Version 1.0
2007-10-13
https://doi.org/10.5878/002442
Dataset 1
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Bo Ekehammar - Stockholm University, Department of Psychology
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Variables
82
Number of individuals/objects
532
Version 1.0
1995-08-16
https://doi.org/10.5878/002443
Dataset 2
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Bo Ekehammar - Stockholm University, Department of Psychology
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Variables
314
Number of individuals/objects
232