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  • A growing body of literature examines the relationship between personality traits and personal values, on the one hand, and citizens’ social and political behavior on the other. Yet, group participation as a specific kind of civic engagement has been somewhat neglected and studies including both traits and values as predictors of associational involvement are even scarcer. This thesis attempts to fill this gap by uncovering the effects of the “Big Five” (Goldberg 1981) and four basic personal values (Schwartz 1992) on personal involvement in various forms of social and political groups (e.g. social clubs, humanitarian or charitable organizations, social movement organizations, political parties). The central argument is that traits may help enable people to participate by providing them with basic psychological skills valuable for group-based civic activities, while values might provide the reasons for such a personal involvement, and thus motivate citizens to participate. Using recent survey data from the GESIS Panel (Germany), it will be demonstrated that personality traits are somewhat better predictors of the overall group participation probability, whatever the group considered, whereas personal values are better predictors of specific forms of engagement – different value priorities leading to participation in different kinds of associations, depending on the degree of compatibility between one’s own values and the goals the association strives for. Together, these results demonstrate the importance of taking into account individuals’ core dispositions and goals when studying civic participation. They also give further evidence regarding the way traits and values might differently regulate behavior, suggesting that, in line with a complementary view of the two constructs, neither is reducible to the other (Winter et al. 1998). Finally, this thesis sheds further light on both the similarities and differences between participants of different groups, an aspect which has been somewhat understudied in the literature. (xsd:string)
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  • Back to the roots. The effects of personality traits and Personal values on participation in civic groups (xsd:string)
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