The HEXACO correlates of authoritarianism's facets in the U.S. and Denmark

TY - JOUR

T1 - The HEXACO correlates of authoritarianism's facets in the U.S. and Denmark

AU - Liu, Jie

AU - Ludeke, Steven G.

AU - Zettler, Ingo

PY - 2017/10/1

Y1 - 2017/10/1

N2 - Research on authoritarianism is increasingly focusing on distinctions among its three facets: authoritarian aggression, authoritarian submission, and conventionalism. We use convenience samples from the U.S. (N = 187) and Denmark (N = 226) to explore the HEXACO personality correlates of the authoritarian facets. As expected, Openness was the most pronounced (negative) predictor of the full-scale authoritarianism and its three facets, and results with Conscientiousness were not significant but were consistent with the modest (positive) associations typically reported. Most important was the predictable differences in the relations the facets had with Honesty-Humility, which was more positively related to conventionalism than authoritarian aggression in the U.S. sample, but not in the Danish sample. Interestingly, the U.S. sample scored significantly higher in authoritarianism and its facets than the Danish sample. We offer a tentative account concerning the desirability of authoritarian beliefs in the two national contexts.

AB - Research on authoritarianism is increasingly focusing on distinctions among its three facets: authoritarian aggression, authoritarian submission, and conventionalism. We use convenience samples from the U.S. (N = 187) and Denmark (N = 226) to explore the HEXACO personality correlates of the authoritarian facets. As expected, Openness was the most pronounced (negative) predictor of the full-scale authoritarianism and its three facets, and results with Conscientiousness were not significant but were consistent with the modest (positive) associations typically reported. Most important was the predictable differences in the relations the facets had with Honesty-Humility, which was more positively related to conventionalism than authoritarian aggression in the U.S. sample, but not in the Danish sample. Interestingly, the U.S. sample scored significantly higher in authoritarianism and its facets than the Danish sample. We offer a tentative account concerning the desirability of authoritarian beliefs in the two national contexts.

KW - Authoritarianism

KW - Conventionalism

KW - Cross-cultural

KW - HEXACO

KW - Honesty-Humility

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019242367&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2017.05.015

DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2017.05.015

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85019242367

SN - 0191-8869

VL - 116

SP - 348

EP - 352

JO - Personality and Individual Differences

JF - Personality and Individual Differences

ER -