APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Divided Germany – a Psychological Investigation of Factors Influencing Right-Wing Populism
- Florian Stolberg
DIPLOMA Private Hochschulgesellschaft mbH - Marc Schipper
Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg
Abstract
Five hypotheses contributing to social psychology were analyzed based on a questionnaire regarding populist and right-wing extremist attitudes. For the hypotheses structural equation models were created and analyzed for 940 respondents from all over Germany to show that right-wing populist attitudes can indeed be traced back to psychological constructs.
Politics