School of Psychology, David Keir Building, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2012 Aug;103(2):343-61. doi: 10.1037/a0028706. Epub 2012 May 28.
Our knowledge on the personality basis of ideological attitudes and prejudice, while based on a substantial body of research, suffers from a potentially serious methodological limitation: an overreliance on the method of self-reports. Across 2 studies (Ns = 193, 424), we examined associations between the Big Five personality dimensions, Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), and generalized prejudice, using both self-report and peer-report data stemming from 1 (Study 1) or 2 (Study 2) peer rater/s. Correlational and regression analyses as well as structural equation modeling showed that (a) the associations between personality dimensions, ideological attitudes, and prejudice were largely similar to previous research for both data sources; (b) RWA and prejudice showed a similar level of self-peer agreement to personality dimensions; (c) most of the known associations between personality, ideological attitudes, and prejudice were replicated also when measured by independent methods; (d) peer reports had some incremental validity in predicting ideological attitudes and prejudice; and (e) there was evidence that Openness to Experience and Agreeableness predicted prejudice directly and not only indirectly via RWA and SDO, respectively. Implications for the status of RWA, SDO, and prejudice as individual-difference constructs and for their bases in personality dimensions are discussed.
我们对思想态度和偏见的人格基础的认识虽然基于大量的研究,但存在一个潜在的严重方法学限制:过度依赖自我报告的方法。在两项研究(N1=193,N2=424)中,我们使用来自一个(研究 1)或两个(研究 2)同伴评价者的自我报告和同伴报告数据,检验了大五人格维度、右翼权威主义(RWA)、社会支配倾向(SDO)与一般偏见之间的关联。相关分析、回归分析和结构方程模型表明:(a)人格维度、意识形态态度和偏见之间的关联与两个数据源的先前研究基本相似;(b)RWA 和偏见与人格维度的自我-同伴一致性水平相似;(c)当用独立方法测量时,人格、意识形态态度和偏见之间的大多数已知关联也得到了复制;(d)同伴报告在预测意识形态态度和偏见方面具有一定的增量有效性;(e)有证据表明,开放性和宜人性可以直接预测偏见,而不是通过 RWA 和 SDO 分别间接预测偏见。讨论了 RWA、SDO 和偏见作为个体差异结构的地位及其在人格维度上的基础的意义。