Private Self-Consciousness as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Value Orientations and Attitudes
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Kemmelmeier, Markus
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2001
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attitudes , physician-assisted suicide , private self-consciousness , value orientations
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The author examined implications of private self-consciousness (PrivSC; Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) for the relationships between social values and issue attitudes. Indeed, the author expected that the value orientations of authoritarianism and individualism would shape attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide. Values and attitudes were consistent in the high-PrivSC participants, who tended to be more aware of different beliefs held simultaneously than were the low-PrivSC participants. However, for the low-PrivSC individuals, there was no relationship between values and attitudes. The results of 2 studies among U.S. undergraduate students confirmed these predictions.
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0022-4545