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Dennison, James ORCID: 0000-0003-3090-7124, Seddig, Daniel and Davidov, Eldad ORCID: 0000-0002-3396-969X (2021). The Role of Human Values in Explaining Support for European Union Membership. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol., 52 (4). S. 372 - 388. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1552-5422

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been greater scholarly enquiry into explaining variation in support for European Union membership. We theorise that one cause of such variation is likely to be non-political psychological predispositions, such as one's personal values. We test this proposition by applying Schwartz's theory of basic human values to predict voting intentions in hypothetical referendums on EU membership. We theorise that these values determine both voting intentions and more proximate explanatory variables of support for EU membership: attitudes to immigration and identifying as European. Using data on 13 countries from the European Social Survey (N=24,703 citizens) and multigroup structural equation modeling, we demonstrate that this psychological framework effectively predicts voting intentions, notably in terms of the consistent cross-country evidence for indirect effects of values on support for membership via European identity and attitudes to immigration. We then discuss the implications of our findings, including differences in effects between countries.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Dennison, James UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3090-7124 UNSPECIFIED Seddig, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Davidov, Eldad UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-969X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-589886
DOI:	10.1177/00220221211005082
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Cross-Cult. Psychol.
Volume:	52
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 372 - 388
Date:	2021
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1552-5422
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Psychology, Social Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/58988