Political consumer behaviour among university students in Brazil and Germany: The role of contextual features and core political values.

Autor/inn/en	Kotzur, Patrick F.; Torres, Cláudio V.; Kedzior, Karina K.; Boehnke, Klaus
Titel	Political consumer behaviour among university students in Brazil and Germany: The role of contextual features and core political values.
Quelle	In: International journal of psychology, 52 (2017) 2, S. 126-135Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-7594; 1464-066X
DOI	10.1002/ijop.12204
Schlagwörter	Interkulturelle Differenz; Politische Einstellung; Umwelt; Konsumismus; Konsumverhalten; Studienanfänger
Abstract	Investigated the relationship between political consumerism and core political values (CPVs) among university students in Brazil and Germany. Despite the prerequisite to endorse values that are compatible with political consumerism, contextual features of one's immediate environment might affect overall levels of political consumerism. 414 Brazilian college students (mean age 23 years) and 222 German students (mean age 22 years) completed an online questionnaire and the Core Political Value Scale. Results showed that political consumerism was significantly associated with higher income in Brazil (but not in Germany). After controlling for income, political consumerism was practiced more frequently in Germany than in Brazil, in urban compared with rural areas, and was not dependent on gender. The urban-rural split was stronger in Brazil than in Germany. These results confirmed the hypothesis that contextual features are associated with political consumerism. Furthermore, the political value, Equality, positively predicted political consumerism in both countries. In contrast, Traditional Morality and support of Free Enterprise negatively predicted political consumerism, although the effect sizes of these relationships were only small. These results suggest that political consumerism among university students is widespread in Germany but not in Brazil. Interestingly, regardless of its low prevalence in Brazil, political consumerism was positively associated with the CPV of Equality among university students in both countries. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2019/1