Measuring Openness to Political Pluralism

Abstract: In an era of increased political polarization, it is important to measure how receptive US American citizens are to diverse political views. Being more open to diverse political viewpoints—openness to political pluralism—may involve holding emotional and intellectual tolerance, non-rigidity, and proactive motivation to seek out different political perspectives. In three preregistered studies of US residents, we present a new self-report measure of openness to political pluralism (OPP) consisting of 25 items. In Study 1 (MTurk n = 400), we verified a preregistered bifactor model with four facets, conducted initial validity analyses, and created a short five-item version (OPPS). Both OPP and OPPS have high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. In Studies 2 and 3, MTurk participants (n = 258) and Qualtrics panel participants (n = 296) completed OPP and measures of related constructs to validate our scale. OPP was modestly correlated with actively open-minded thinking (AOT).... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/7867

Show object

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Measuring Openness to Political Pluralism ; volume:10 ; number:2 ; day:21 ; month:10 ; year:2022 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 10, Heft 2 (21.10.2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Shrout, Patrick E. ; Mogami, Mao ; Xu, Qi ; Ghodse-Elahi, Yasaman ; Mutter, Elizabeth ; Riccio, Matthew T. ; Valshtein, Timothy J. ; Baadan, V. ; Goudarzi, Shahrzad

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.7867
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022102905124389264790
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.