The Moral Foundations taxonomy: Structural validity and relation to political ideology in Sweden
Författare
Summary, in English
Although Moral Foundations Theory claims that the foundations of morality are universal, there are still few studies addressing it through non-English measures. In the current research, 540 persons filled out a Swedish translation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, and 332 of them filled out political attitude measures. Confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the fit of the five-factor model was better than alternative models but not optimal, replicating previous findings. Concerns with fairness and prevention of harm predicted political identity leftward, mediated mainly by preference for equality, and concerns with loyalty, authority, and sanctity predicted political identity rightward, mediated mainly by resistance to change and system justification, as hypothesized. Fairness and authority concerns were the best predictors of political ideology.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
28-32
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Personality and Individual Differences
Volym
76
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Psychology
Nyckelord
- moral foundations
- morality
- political ideology
- political attitudes
- resistance to change
- preference for equality
- system justification
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1873-3549