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 people’s 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.

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