Summary information

Study title

The Association between personality and social attitudes in a British context

Creator

Meek, N

Study number / PID

852860 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-852860 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Survey data collected online as part of a project in political psychology investigating the association in the UK between (i) personality as measured by the Five Factor or Big Five Model and (ii) a range of social, political and religious attitudes including party-political support and voting intention.Variables include: Five Factor Model of personality (measured by the Mini-IPIP); Left-Right (economics), Libertarianism‐Authoritarianism, Welfarism, and Immigration (as used in British Social Attitudes Survey and British Election Study); other attitudinal measures of religion, the European Union, and nuclear weapons; attitudes towards British political parties; past and/or future voting at UK general elections and the EU Referendum; attitudes towards main issues facing the UK; and demographics items including sex, age, education, ethnicity, and locale.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/11/2015 - 31/03/2016

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Not available

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Convenience and snowball sample via email and social media invitations of 1388 adults aged 18 and over and eligible to vote in a constituency or ward in England, Scotland or Wales. All data collected online via Qualtrics.

Funding information

Grant number

Unknown

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2017

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.

Related publications

Not available