TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the Relationships between Personality Traits and Political Participation Using the Rational Choice Framework
AU - Wang, Ching Hsing
AU - Shalaby, Marwa M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Marwa M. Shalaby is the Fellow for the Middle East and Director of Women’s Rights in the Middle East Program, Rice University, Texas. Her research is in the field of comparative politics and research methodology, with a concentration on Middle Eastern politics, gender politics and democratization. Her ongoing research investigates the dynamics of female political representation in the MENA region. She is the PI for the Governance and Elections in the Middle East Project (GEMEP) and she has published extensively on the topic. Her research is supported by the Women’s Rights in the Middle East Endowment, the Boniuk Institute, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy (AUB) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Her book, The Evolving Role of oW men afet r the Arab Spring , co-edited with Valentine Moghadam is published with Palgrave Macmillan. Currently, she
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PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - This study incorporates the Big Five personality traits into the rational choice theory to explain individual political participation. It argues that three factors in the rational choice framework - selfefficacy belief, perceived benefits and civic duty - play a pivotal role in mediating the relationships between personality traits and political participation. In accordance with previous research, this study finds that extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience exhibit significant direct impacts on political participation. More importantly, the Big Five personality traits apart from agreeableness also exert significant positive indirect effects on political participation through self-efficacy belief, perceived benefits and civic duty. To sum up, this study provides new insights into the relationships between personality traits and political behavior and shows that dispositional traits can play some role in the rational choice framework to account for individual political participation.
AB - This study incorporates the Big Five personality traits into the rational choice theory to explain individual political participation. It argues that three factors in the rational choice framework - selfefficacy belief, perceived benefits and civic duty - play a pivotal role in mediating the relationships between personality traits and political participation. In accordance with previous research, this study finds that extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience exhibit significant direct impacts on political participation. More importantly, the Big Five personality traits apart from agreeableness also exert significant positive indirect effects on political participation through self-efficacy belief, perceived benefits and civic duty. To sum up, this study provides new insights into the relationships between personality traits and political behavior and shows that dispositional traits can play some role in the rational choice framework to account for individual political participation.
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U2 - 10.6683/TPSR.201806_22(1).0005
DO - 10.6683/TPSR.201806_22(1).0005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059574606
SN - 1027-0221
VL - 22
SP - 187
EP - 237
JO - Taiwanese Political Science Review
JF - Taiwanese Political Science Review
IS - 1
ER -