TY - JOUR
T1 - Voters' personality traits in presidential elections
AU - Barbaranelli, Claudio
AU - Caprara, Gian Vittorio
AU - Vecchione, Michele
AU - Fraley, Chris R.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - Personality measures of more than 6000 US electors on the Big Five Factors have been collected on the Web through a Web site designed to assess their personality. By means of structural equation modeling the impact of personality factors as well as of demographic variables, such as age and sex, on voting intentions on the forthcoming US presidential elections was investigated. Personality variables accounted for 16% of variance of voting intentions, while gender and age accounted for no more than 3%. High Agreeableness and Openness were predictive of intention to vote for Kerry, while all high Energy, Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability were predictive of intention to vote for Bush. Results are consistent with previous research conducted in a different country, using a different language.
AB - Personality measures of more than 6000 US electors on the Big Five Factors have been collected on the Web through a Web site designed to assess their personality. By means of structural equation modeling the impact of personality factors as well as of demographic variables, such as age and sex, on voting intentions on the forthcoming US presidential elections was investigated. Personality variables accounted for 16% of variance of voting intentions, while gender and age accounted for no more than 3%. High Agreeableness and Openness were predictive of intention to vote for Kerry, while all high Energy, Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability were predictive of intention to vote for Bush. Results are consistent with previous research conducted in a different country, using a different language.
KW - Big Five
KW - Personality
KW - Politics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.029
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.029
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33947114282
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 42
SP - 1199
EP - 1208
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 7
ER -