The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology: Empirical Evidences From Five Continents

Gian Vittorio Caprara; Michele Vecchione; Shalom H. Schwartz; Harald Schoen; Paul G. Bain; Jo Silvester; Jan Cieciuch; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Gabriel Bianchi; Hasan Kirmanoglu; Cem Baslevent; Catalin Mamali; Jorge Manzi; Miyuki Katayama; Tetyana Posnova; Carmen Tabernero; Claudio Torres; Markku Verkasalo; Jan Erik Lönnqvist; Eva Vondráková; Maria Giovanna Caprara

doi:10.1177/1069397118774233

The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology: Empirical Evidences From Five Continents

Gian Vittorio Caprara
, Michele Vecchione
, Shalom H. Schwartz
, Harald Schoen
, Paul G. Bain
, Jo Silvester
, Jan Cieciuch
, Vassilis Pavlopoulos
, Gabriel Bianchi
, Hasan Kirmanoglu
, Cem Baslevent
, Catalin Mamali
, Jorge Manzi
, Miyuki Katayama
, Tetyana Posnova
, Carmen Tabernero
, Claudio Torres
, Markku Verkasalo
, Jan Erik Lönnqvist
, Eva Vondráková

Maria Giovanna Caprara

Department of Psychology

Università degli Studi di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
National Research University Higher School of Economics
University of Mannheim
Queensland University of Technology
City, University of London
University of Zurich
Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Istanbul Bilgi University
University of Wisconsin–Platteville
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Toyo University
Chernivtsi National University
Universidad de Salamanca
Universidade de Brasilia
University of Helsinki
Constantine the Philosopher University
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

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Abstract

The current study examines the extent to which religiosity account for ideological orientations in 16 countries from five continents (Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Greece, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Results showed that religiosity was consistently related to right and conservative ideologies in all countries, except Australia. This relation held across different religions, and did not vary across participant’s demographic conditions (i.e., gender, age, income, and education). After controlling for basic personal values, the contribution of religiosity on ideology was still significant. However, the effect was substantial only in countries where religion has played a prominent role in the public sphere, such as Spain, Poland, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Turkey. In the other countries, the unique contribution of religiosity was marginal or small.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	524-541
Number of pages	18
Journal	Cross-Cultural Research
Volume	52
Issue number	5
Early online date	20 May 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397118774233
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018

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1Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 2The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 4University of Mannheim, Germany 5Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 6City University London, UK 7University of Zurich, Switzerland 8Cardinal Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland 9National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 10Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic 11Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey 12University of Wisconsin–Platteville, USA 13Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 14Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan 15Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine 16University of Salamanca, Spain 17University of Brasília, Brazil 18University of Helsinki, Finland 19Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovak Republic 20Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Collado Villalba, Spain The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The work of Jan Cieciuch was supported by Grant 2014/14/M/HS6/00919 from the National Science Centre, Poland.

Keywords

political ideology
religiosity
values

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Psychology (miscellaneous)

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Caprara, Gian Vittorio ; Vecchione, Michele ; Schwartz, Shalom H. ; Schoen, Harald ; Bain, Paul G. ; Silvester, Jo ; Cieciuch, Jan ; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis ; Bianchi, Gabriel ; Kirmanoglu, Hasan ; Baslevent, Cem ; Mamali, Catalin ; Manzi, Jorge ; Katayama, Miyuki ; Posnova, Tetyana ; Tabernero, Carmen ; Torres, Claudio ; Verkasalo, Markku ; Lönnqvist, Jan Erik ; Vondráková, Eva ; Caprara, Maria Giovanna. / The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology : Empirical Evidences From Five Continents. In: Cross-Cultural Research. 2018 ; Vol. 52, No. 5. pp. 524-541. (C) 2018 SAGE Publications. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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Caprara, G. V., Vecchione, M., Schwartz, S. H., Schoen, H., Bain, P. G., Silvester, J., Cieciuch, J., Pavlopoulos, V., Bianchi, G., Kirmanoglu, H., Baslevent, C., Mamali, C., Manzi, J., Katayama, M., Posnova, T., Tabernero, C., Torres, C., Verkasalo, M., Lönnqvist, J. E., ... Caprara, M. G. (2018). The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology: Empirical Evidences From Five Continents. Cross-Cultural Research, 52(5), 524-541. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397118774233

Caprara, GV, Vecchione, M, Schwartz, SH, Schoen, H, Bain, PG, Silvester, J, Cieciuch, J, Pavlopoulos, V, Bianchi, G, Kirmanoglu, H, Baslevent, C, Mamali, C, Manzi, J, Katayama, M, Posnova, T, Tabernero, C, Torres, C, Verkasalo, M, Lönnqvist, JE, Vondráková, E & Caprara, MG 2018, 'The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology: Empirical Evidences From Five Continents', Cross-Cultural Research, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 524-541. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397118774233

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