Rivlin-Angert Naama, Yakter Alon, Sheffer Lior
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Senior Lecturer, School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Public Opin Q. 2025 Jun 15;89(2):389-414. doi: 10.1093/poq/nfaf021. eCollection 2025.
The relationship between personality traits and political attitudes has been studied extensively. However, existing accounts largely study personality's links to liberal-conservative divisions on social and economic issues. We know far less about its attitudinal influences when politics is organized around other issue domains, particularly ethnonational conflicts. Addressing this gap, we examine the relationship between the Big Five personality traits, policy preferences, and political orientation in Israel, where the main ideological cleavage involves the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Using original survey data, we find that the known relationships with social and economic attitudes operate only partly and more weakly in this context. Unlike these domains, conflict-related preferences in Israel correlate primarily with greater conscientiousness, largely through authoritarian tendencies. General Left-Right orientations mimic this relationship, reflecting conflict-related views rather than social or economic inclinations. These findings expand the scope of current debates about personality and political attitudes and underscore the importance of national ideological contexts for future research.
人格特质与政治态度之间的关系已得到广泛研究。然而，现有研究大多探讨人格与社会和经济问题上自由派与保守派分歧的联系。当政治围绕其他议题领域展开，尤其是族裔民族冲突时，我们对其态度影响的了解要少得多。为填补这一空白，我们研究了以色列的大五人格特质、政策偏好和政治取向之间的关系，在以色列，主要的意识形态分歧涉及巴以冲突。利用原始调查数据，我们发现，在这种背景下，与社会和经济态度的已知关系仅部分起作用且作用较弱。与这些领域不同，以色列与冲突相关的偏好主要与更高的尽责性相关，很大程度上是通过威权倾向。总体的左右取向也呈现这种关系，反映的是与冲突相关的观点而非社会或经济倾向。这些发现扩展了当前关于人格与政治态度辩论的范围，并凸显了国家意识形态背景对未来研究的重要性。
