Measuring openness to political pluralism

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI:10.5964/jspp.7867

P. Shrout, Mao Mogami, Qi Xu, Yasaman Ghodse-Elahi, Elizabeth R Mutter, M. Riccio, T. Valshtein, V. Baadan, S. Goudarzi

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Abstract

In an era of increased political polarization, it is important to measure how receptive US American citizens are to diverse political views. Being more open to diverse political viewpoints—openness to political pluralism—may involve holding emotional and intellectual tolerance, non-rigidity, and proactive motivation to seek out different political perspectives. In three preregistered studies of US residents, we present a new self-report measure of openness to political pluralism (OPP) consisting of 25 items. In Study 1 (MTurk n = 400), we verified a preregistered bifactor model with four facets, conducted initial validity analyses, and created a short five-item version (OPPS). Both OPP and OPPS have high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. In Studies 2 and 3, MTurk participants (n = 258) and Qualtrics panel participants (n = 296) completed OPP and measures of related constructs to validate our scale. OPP was modestly correlated with actively open-minded thinking (AOT) and highly correlated with open-minded cognition-political (OMC-P). Greater OPP was associated with an inverted U-shape relation to left-right political orientation. It was also correlated with more politically diverse social networks and varied information seeking. We discuss how our measure of openness to political pluralism can be used in future research.

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衡量对政治多元化的开放程度

在政治两极分化加剧的时代，衡量美国公民对不同政治观点的接受程度是很重要的。对不同的政治观点持更开放的态度——对政治多元化持开放态度——可能包括保持情感和智力上的宽容，不僵化，以及积极主动地寻求不同的政治观点。在对美国居民进行的三项预登记研究中，我们提出了一种新的自我报告衡量对政治多元化的开放性(OPP)，由25个项目组成。在研究1 (MTurk n = 400)中，我们验证了一个包含四个方面的预注册双因素模型，进行了初步的效度分析，并创建了一个简短的五项版本(OPPS)。OPP和OPPS都具有较高的内部一致性和重测信度。在研究2和3中，MTurk参与者(n = 258)和qualics小组参与者(n = 296)完成了OPP和相关构图的测量，以验证我们的量表。OPP与积极开放思维(AOT)有中度相关，与开放的认知-政治(OMC-P)有高度相关。较高的OPP与左右政治倾向呈倒u型关系。它还与政治上更多样化的社交网络和不同的信息寻求有关。我们将讨论如何在未来的研究中使用我们对政治多元化的开放程度。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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2.70

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4.80%

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审稿时长

40 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.