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Organizing principles of involvement in human rights and their social anchoring in value priorities
Author(s) -
Spini Dario,
Doise Willem
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199807/08)28:4<603::aid-ejsp884>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , value (mathematics) , dimension (graph theory) , politics , anchoring , human values , transcendence (philosophy) , epistemology , sociology , social science , law , statistics , political science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
Two questionnaire studies were conducted ( N =80 and N =175) to examine the structure and the social anchoring of the organizing principles of personal and governmental involvement concerning human rights. The results indicated that these organizing principles had, as hypothesized one abstract and one applied dimension. The second study evaluated the correlations between these dimensions and values. Results were consistent with Schwartz's (1992) model predicting both the internal structure of values and their relations with other variables. Amongst other results, self‐transcendence values were positively correlated with the abstract involvements and the applied personal involvement, and negatively with the applied governmental involvement. The results concerning the correlations between conservation values and the four organizing principles were the opposite. Results concerning the links between different levels of social anchorings, particularly between the value types and variables such as religious affiliation and practice political preferences, and social and political activism were also presented and discussed. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.