Socio-political attitudes 1975
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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
... Show more..Subject area:
political behaviour and attitudes, youth, social behaviour and attitudes
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Principal organisation:
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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
... Show more..Language:
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)
Publications
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.
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Version 1.0:
2007-10-13
doi:10.5878/002442
Dataset 1
Socio-political attitudes 1975 - Total sample
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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
doi:10.5878/002443
Dataset 2
Socio-political attitudes 1975 - Subsample
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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