TY - JOUR
T1 - Religiosity and social welfare
T2 - Competing influences of cultural conservatism and prosocial value orientation
AU - Malka, Ariel
AU - Soto, Christopher J.
AU - Cohen, Adam
AU - Miller, Dale T.
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - This research examines the hypothesis that religiosity has two competing psychological influences on the social welfare attitudes of contemporary Americans. On the one hand, religiosity promotes a culturally based conservative identity, which in turn promotes opposition to federal social welfare provision. On the other hand, religiosity promotes a prosocial value orientation, which in turn promotes support of federal social welfare provision. Across two national samples (Ns=1,513 and 320) and one sample of business employees (N=710), reliable support for this competing pathways model was obtained. We argue that research testing influences of nonpolitical individual differences on political preferences should consider the possibility of competing influences that are rooted in a combination of personality processes and contextual-discursive surroundings.
AB - This research examines the hypothesis that religiosity has two competing psychological influences on the social welfare attitudes of contemporary Americans. On the one hand, religiosity promotes a culturally based conservative identity, which in turn promotes opposition to federal social welfare provision. On the other hand, religiosity promotes a prosocial value orientation, which in turn promotes support of federal social welfare provision. Across two national samples (Ns=1,513 and 320) and one sample of business employees (N=710), reliable support for this competing pathways model was obtained. We argue that research testing influences of nonpolitical individual differences on political preferences should consider the possibility of competing influences that are rooted in a combination of personality processes and contextual-discursive surroundings.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00705.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00705.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 21682729
AN - SCOPUS:79960061435
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 79
SP - 763
EP - 792
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 4
ER -