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The 12 Item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS)

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Recent years have seen a surge in psychological research on the relationship between political ideology (particularly conservatism) and cognition, affect, behaviour, and even biology. Despite this flurry of investigation, however, there is as yet no accepted, validated, and widely used multi-item scale of conservatism that is concise, that is modern in its conceptualisation, and that includes both social and economic conservatism subscales. In this paper the 12-Item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS) is proposed and validated to help fill this gap. The SECS is suggested to be an important and useful tool for researchers working in political psychology.

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  • Jim A C Everett, 2013. "The 12 Item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS)," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(12), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0082131
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082131
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