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.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/11/2015 - 31/03/2016
Country
United Kingdom
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Individual
Universe
Not availableSampling procedure
Not availableKind 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
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