TY - JOUR
T1 - Empirical Correlates of Cosmopolitan Orientation
T2 - Etiology and Functions in a Worldwide Representative Sample
AU - Liu, James H.
AU - Zhang, Robert Jiqi
AU - Leung, Angela K.Y.
AU - Gil de Zúñiga, Homero
AU - Gastardo-Conaco, Cecilia
AU - Vasiutynskyi, Vadym
AU - Kus-Harbord, Larissa
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Grant FA2386‐15‐1‐0003 from the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to James H. Liu, School of Psychology, Massey University, Private Bag 102904, Auckland 0745, New Zealand. Email: [email protected]
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© 2020 International Society of Political Psychology
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - Psychology has begun contributing to social theory by providing empirical measures of actually existing cosmopolitanism that complements more purely theoretical conceptions of the construct common in philosophy and sociology. Drawing from two waves of research on representative adult samples from 19 countries (N = 8740), metric invariance was found for the three factors of cosmopolitan orientation (COS): cultural openness (CO), global prosociality (GP), and respect for cultural diversity (RCD). In terms of etiology, among Wave 1 measures, the personality factor of agreeableness was the best predictor of the cosmopolitan factors of GP and RCD at Wave 2, whereas openness of personality best predicted CO. Wave 1 measures of education, political liberalism, and self-reported social status independently also explained a small amount of variance in COS. Functionally, COS was shown to predict less prejudice against immigrants, and more support for global civil society, even after controlling for social dominance orientation. All three COS factors independently predicted better attitudes towards immigrants. GP was the best predictor of trust in the United Nations, whereas RCD was the best predictor of support for environmental protection. The three-factor model of COS appears well-calibrated for assessing actually existing cosmopolitanism across cultures.
AB - Psychology has begun contributing to social theory by providing empirical measures of actually existing cosmopolitanism that complements more purely theoretical conceptions of the construct common in philosophy and sociology. Drawing from two waves of research on representative adult samples from 19 countries (N = 8740), metric invariance was found for the three factors of cosmopolitan orientation (COS): cultural openness (CO), global prosociality (GP), and respect for cultural diversity (RCD). In terms of etiology, among Wave 1 measures, the personality factor of agreeableness was the best predictor of the cosmopolitan factors of GP and RCD at Wave 2, whereas openness of personality best predicted CO. Wave 1 measures of education, political liberalism, and self-reported social status independently also explained a small amount of variance in COS. Functionally, COS was shown to predict less prejudice against immigrants, and more support for global civil society, even after controlling for social dominance orientation. All three COS factors independently predicted better attitudes towards immigrants. GP was the best predictor of trust in the United Nations, whereas RCD was the best predictor of support for environmental protection. The three-factor model of COS appears well-calibrated for assessing actually existing cosmopolitanism across cultures.
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U2 - 10.1111/pops.12644
DO - 10.1111/pops.12644
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077885559
SN - 0162-895X
VL - 41
SP - 661
EP - 678
JO - Political Psychology
JF - Political Psychology
IS - 4
ER -