This study analyses the role played by identity motives and cultural worldviews in voting behavior. For this purpose, a representative national sample of Italian (N=3020) respondents completed a questionnaire battery measuring political values, proxies of identity motives (i.e. attitude towards immigrants and perceived identity threat), as well as cultural worldviews (symbolic universes). These variables were used in a model with the voting intention of respondents as outcome variable, political values, identity motives and socio-demographics as direct predictors and symbolic universes as indirect predictors. Consistently with the hypotheses, analyses revealed that the impact of identity motives is higher than that produced by socio-economic motives or political values. Symbolic universes indirectly influence identity motives and, therefore, voting behavior. Results are interpreted in the framework of Semiotic Cultural Psychology Theory.
Identity and Symbolic Universes in Voting Behavior. A study of the Italian society / Andreassi, Silvia; Signore, Fulvio; Cordella, Barbara; De Dominicis, Serena; Gennaro, Alessandro; Iuso, Salvatore; Kerusauskaite, Skaiste; Kosic, Ankica; Mannarini, Terri; Reho, Matteo; Rocchi, Giulia; Rochira, Alessia; Scharfbillig, Mario; Salvatore, Sergio. - In: PSYCHOLOGY HUB. - ISSN 2723-973X. - 4:2(2023), pp. 69-80.
Identity and Symbolic Universes in Voting Behavior. A study of the Italian society
Silvia AndreassiPrimo
;Barbara Cordella;Alessandro Gennaro;Skaiste Kerusauskaite;Ankica Kosic;Matteo Reho;Giulia Rocchi;
2023
Abstract
This study analyses the role played by identity motives and cultural worldviews in voting behavior. For this purpose, a representative national sample of Italian (N=3020) respondents completed a questionnaire battery measuring political values, proxies of identity motives (i.e. attitude towards immigrants and perceived identity threat), as well as cultural worldviews (symbolic universes). These variables were used in a model with the voting intention of respondents as outcome variable, political values, identity motives and socio-demographics as direct predictors and symbolic universes as indirect predictors. Consistently with the hypotheses, analyses revealed that the impact of identity motives is higher than that produced by socio-economic motives or political values. Symbolic universes indirectly influence identity motives and, therefore, voting behavior. Results are interpreted in the framework of Semiotic Cultural Psychology Theory.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.