The 12 item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS).
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24349200.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0082131 and PMC identifier 3859575.
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Abstract
Recent years have seen a surge in psychological research on the relationship between political ideology (particularly conservatism) and cognition, affect, behaviour, and even biology. Despite this flurry of investigation, however, there is as yet no accepted, validated, and widely used multi-item scale of conservatism that is concise, that is modern in its conceptualisation, and that includes both social and economic conservatism subscales. In this paper the 12-Item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS) is proposed and validated to help fill this gap. The SECS is suggested to be an important and useful tool for researchers working in political psychology.
Medical subject headings
- Politics
- Surveys and Questionnaires