Personal Political Salience as a Self-Schema: Consequences for Political Information Processing

Personal political salience (PPS), or the propensity to attach personal meaning to social and historical events, is an individual difference variable that is related to civic participation and participation in political activism. PPS is conceptualized as a self-schema and hypothesized to be related...

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Published in:Political psychology 2005-12, Vol.26 (6), p.965-976
Main Author: Duncan, Lauren E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Cognition & reasoning
Conceptualization
Information Processing
Meaning
Party identification
personal political salience
Personality psychology
Political activism
Political attitudes
Political Ideologies
Political ideology
Political information
political information processing
Political Parties
Political psychology
political self-schema
Politics
Research Note
Salience
Self
Self schema
Social events
Social psychology
War
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Summary:Personal political salience (PPS), or the propensity to attach personal meaning to social and historical events, is an individual difference variable that is related to civic participation and participation in political activism. PPS is conceptualized as a self-schema and hypothesized to be related to efficient processing of political data. In two samples, PPS was positively related to number of political interest descriptors endorsed, unrelated to number of personality descriptors endorsed, and positively related to quick processing of information about political positions, party identification, and political ideology. Conceptualizing PPS as a self-schema is useful because it provides a cognitive mechanism whereby people connect personal experiences to their wider social, historical, and political contexts.
ISSN:0162-895X
1467-9221
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2005.00453.x