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Psicologia
Print version ISSN 0874-2049
Abstract
PEREIRA, Cícero; CARDOSO, Sandro José and RIBEIRO, Ana Raquel Correia. Empirical Test of a Model on the Relations between the Value Systems and the Democratic Attitudes. Psicologia [online]. 2005, vol.19, n.1-2, pp.227-250. ISSN 0874-2049.
The instability of Latin American countries democracy has been attributed to the tension between typical values of the non‑democratic and democratic regimes. However, few studies analyse the simultaneous relations between the set of value systems and peoples democratic attitudes. This study examines the goodness of fit of a model on these relations. The model was tested on a survey (N = 300) on which were applied the Questionnaire for Psychosocial Values and the Scale of Attitudes towards Democracy. The results of a structural equations model show an organization of values into four systems: post‑materialist; religious; hedonist; materialist. Furthermore, the results also indicate that the adhesion to materialist system predicts a negative attitude toward democracy and the adhesion to pos‑materialist values predicts a negative one. The discussion focuses on the comparison between these results and those obtained in previous studies.
Keywords : sistema de valores; atitude; democracia.