Ideological social identity: Psychological attachment to ideological in-groups as a political phenomenon and a behavioral influence
CJ Devine - Political Behavior, 2015 - Springer
Motivated by symbolic ideology research and Social Identity Theory (SIT), this article
introduces an original measure of ideological social identity (ISI) designed to capture
feelings of psychological attachment to an ideological in-group and facilitate analysis of their
attitudinal and behavioral effects. Data from a nationally representative sample of survey
experimental participants indicates that the ISI scale is empirically distinct from ideological
self-placement, the standard measure of symbolic ideology, and it conditions the effects of …
introduces an original measure of ideological social identity (ISI) designed to capture
feelings of psychological attachment to an ideological in-group and facilitate analysis of their
attitudinal and behavioral effects. Data from a nationally representative sample of survey
experimental participants indicates that the ISI scale is empirically distinct from ideological
self-placement, the standard measure of symbolic ideology, and it conditions the effects of …
