GOOD FOR RELATIVES OR FOR A COMMUNITY? BENEVOLENCE AND UNIVERSALISM AS DETERMINANTS OF CIVIC ACTIVITY IN POLAND AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

• Authors: Radkiewicz P. , Skarzynska K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article concerns the analysis of relationships between personal values and civic activity. The main hypotheses claims that individual's involvement in civic activities is determined by universalism and benevolence - two types of prosocial values defined in the S. Schwartz's model of personal values. The authors made use of the data derived form large international research European Social Survey. The results show that civic activity in Europe has certain common denominator, which consists of competence, effectiveness and efficiency. In most of the national communities quite strong effects of universalism have been revealed; and merely in two cases it was an effect of benevolence (Poland, Germany). The authors point at an existence of dissimilar models of the civic participation emerging in advanced democracies and in postcommunist countries (including Poland). It consist in fact, that in advanced democracy model one of the most important predictors of civic activity is the level of universalistic values acceptance, while in postcommunist countries universalism turned out to be meaningless factor.

Keywords

EN

CIVIC ACTIVITY; PERSONAL VALUES; UNIVERSALISM

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee on Psychological Sciences PAS, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
• Journal: Psychological Studies
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 51-64
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Radkiewicz P.

author

Skarzynska K.

• P. Radkiewicz, Instytut Psychologii PAN, ul. Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02364944