Political Trust and Attitudes toward Government Anti-COVID Policies
Session
Psychology
Description
Political trust could be defined as trust in institutions and the political process, and it includes trust in elites, politicians and political parties. Arguably, political opinions and ideological labels are stimuli to which the Big Five personality traits shape responses, and external environmental factors shape the meaning of these stimuli. By the same token, we argue that political trust is a certain political attitude impacted by both personality and external stimuli. As political attitude, political trust rests between personality, identity and values, emotions and the cognitive system. In that position between personality and external factors, political trust could serve as a characteristic adaptation, middle-level unit that is the product of both personality traits and environmental factors. This scheme offers a platform to test aggregate-level relationships between Big Five personality traits and political outcomes, and helps to understand how environmental factors moderate these relationships. We use the Big Five personality model to explain trust of the citizens of Kosovo on two sets of entities: politicians, institutions, and the judiciary systems of both Kosovo and the European Union. We analyze a probability sample of public opinion survey data that we collected in winter 2020-2021 in Kosovo through the cellphone random digit dialing (RDD) technique.
Keywords:
Big Five personality traits, political trust, EU membership, trust in EU and Kosovo politicians, trust in EU and Kosovo institutions, trust in EU and Kosovo judicial systems
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-95-6
Location
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Start Date
28-10-2023 8:00 AM
End Date
29-10-2023 6:00 PM
DOI
10.3107/ubt-ic.2023.30
Recommended Citation
Dara, Frederik; Xhaja, Eglantina; and Peshkopia, Ridvan, "Political Trust and Attitudes toward Government Anti-COVID Policies" (2023). UBT International Conference. 8.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/IC/PSYY/8
Political Trust and Attitudes toward Government Anti-COVID Policies
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Political trust could be defined as trust in institutions and the political process, and it includes trust in elites, politicians and political parties. Arguably, political opinions and ideological labels are stimuli to which the Big Five personality traits shape responses, and external environmental factors shape the meaning of these stimuli. By the same token, we argue that political trust is a certain political attitude impacted by both personality and external stimuli. As political attitude, political trust rests between personality, identity and values, emotions and the cognitive system. In that position between personality and external factors, political trust could serve as a characteristic adaptation, middle-level unit that is the product of both personality traits and environmental factors. This scheme offers a platform to test aggregate-level relationships between Big Five personality traits and political outcomes, and helps to understand how environmental factors moderate these relationships. We use the Big Five personality model to explain trust of the citizens of Kosovo on two sets of entities: politicians, institutions, and the judiciary systems of both Kosovo and the European Union. We analyze a probability sample of public opinion survey data that we collected in winter 2020-2021 in Kosovo through the cellphone random digit dialing (RDD) technique.