The 12 item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS)

The 12 item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS)

Recent years have seen a surge in psychological research on the relationship between political ideology (particularly conservatism) and cognition, affect, behaviour, and even biology. Despite this flurry of investigation, however, there is as yet no accepted, validated, and widely used multi-item sc...

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Published in:PloS one Vol. 8; no. 12; p. e82131
Main Author: Everett, Jim A C
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Public Library of Science 11-12-2013
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:
Adult
Attitudes
Behavior
Cognition
Communism
Conservatism
Economics
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Humans
Ideology
Liberalism
Politics
Prejudice
Psychologists
Psychology
Researchers
Social Dominance
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:Recent years have seen a surge in psychological research on the relationship between political ideology (particularly conservatism) and cognition, affect, behaviour, and even biology. Despite this flurry of investigation, however, there is as yet no accepted, validated, and widely used multi-item scale of conservatism that is concise, that is modern in its conceptualisation, and that includes both social and economic conservatism subscales. In this paper the 12-Item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS) is proposed and validated to help fill this gap. The SECS is suggested to be an important and useful tool for researchers working in political psychology.
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Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.
Conceived and designed the experiments: JE. Performed the experiments: JE. Analyzed the data: JE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JE. Wrote the paper: JE.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0082131