Department of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
PLoS One. 2022 Jul 19;17(7):e0269930. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269930. eCollection 2022.
New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, adopted a "go hard, go early" approach to eliminate COVID-19. Although Ardern and her Labour party are considered left-leaning, the policies implemented during the pandemic (e.g., police roadblocks) have the hallmarks of Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA). RWA is characterized by three attitudinal clusters (authoritarian aggression, submission, and conventionalism). The uniqueness of the clusters, and whether they react to environmental change, has been debated. Here, in the context of the pandemic, we investigate the relationship between political orientation and RWA. Specifically, we measured political orientation, support for New Zealand's major political parties, and RWA among 1,430 adult community members. A multivariate Bayesian model demonstrated that, in the middle of a pandemic, both left-leaning and right-leaning individuals endorsed items tapping authoritarian submission. In contrast to authoritarian submission, and demonstrating the multidimensional nature of RWA, we observed the typical relationships between political orientation and authoritarian aggression and conventionalism was observed.
新西兰总理杰辛达·阿德恩（Jacinda Ardern）采取了“严厉、尽早”的方法来消灭 COVID-19。尽管阿德恩和她的工党被认为是左派，但在大流行期间实施的政策（例如警察路障）具有右翼威权主义（RWA）的特征。RWA 的特点是三个态度群（威权攻击性、服从性和传统主义）。这些群体的独特性以及它们是否对环境变化做出反应一直存在争议。在这里，我们在大流行的背景下研究了政治倾向与 RWA 的关系。具体来说，我们在 1430 名成年社区成员中测量了政治倾向、对新西兰主要政党的支持以及 RWA。多元贝叶斯模型表明，在大流行中期，左倾和右倾个体都认可了权威服从的项目。与权威服从相反，并展示了 RWA 的多维性质，我们观察到了政治倾向与威权攻击性和传统主义之间的典型关系。
