Private self-consciousness as a moderator of the relationship between value orientations and attitudes.
The author examined implications of private self-consciousness (PrivSC; Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) for the relationships between social values and issue attitudes. Indeed, the author expected that the value orientations of authoritarianism and individualism would shape attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide. Values and attitudes were consistent in the high-PrivSC participants, who tended to be more aware of different beliefs held simultaneously than were the low-PrivSC participants. However, for the low-PrivSC individuals, there was no relationship between values and attitudes. The results of 2 studies among U.S. undergraduate students confirmed these predictions.
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Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1109, USA. markusk@umich.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001318:Authoritarianism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012945:Social Values; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000523:psychology*