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Personality Psych 4
religion, well being ,political, and values
Question | Answer |
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extrinsic | religion important for meeting other goals |
intrinsic | genuine belief in importance of religion |
personal religiosity | beliefs and practices that refer to a transcendent being that is legitimized by an established tradition or group |
Spirituality dimension to religion | refers to transcendent being that emphasizes experience of individual and independence from established religious traditions and beliefs. |
religious fundamentalism - dimension of religion | strict obedience and unquestioning devotion toward rules and teachings of ones religion |
religious dimension related to environmental experiences | religious socialization from from family, negative life events, and self transcendent experiences. |
Individual differences related to religiosity | weak association that is more stable over 10 years than 50. more heritable |
Right wing authoritarianism tendencies: | conventionalism: adherence to norms. Authoritarian aggression: hostility toward deviant others. Authoritarian submission: obedience toward legitimate authorities. |
Right wing authoritarianism association: | support for harsh prison sentences, restriction of civil liberties, high levels of ethnocentrism(favoring own ethnic group over others) , negative attitudes toward homosexuals, and voting for conservative political parties: republicans. |
Social Dominance orientation tendency | Preference for social hierarchies, instead of equality for all groups |
Social Dominance orientation associated with: | lower support of government social programs, lower support of help for minorities, lower environmental protection, support for military spending, voting for conservatives. |
Political attitude of RWA | sees the world as a dangerous place and as if values and traditions are being threatened. |
Political attitudes of SDO | sees the world as a competitive place and everyone must fend for themselves. |
political combination of RWA and SDO | sees world as both threatening and competitive, most negative attitudes toward out groups. or can see the world as neither threatening nor competitive |
What group is resistant to change and prefer order, low openness | RWA |
what group is linked to acceptance of inequality? (agreeableness facet) | SDO |
Prefers high order and low equality | highest on conservative ideology |
Prefer high equality and low order | highest on liberal ideology |
Openness to experience is related to | higher political knowledge |
Hedonism | Well-being as pleasure and happiness |
Eudaemonism | Well-being as actualization of human potentials |
Well being is directly related to emotions and exists when | you experience frequent positive emotions and few negative emotions with an emphasis on subjective experience |
Psychology's hedonic view is | being able to fulfill own desires |
Authentic happiness | emphasis on subjective experiences , up to the individual to be happy |
Eudaimonic view sees well being as | an expression of virtue and doing what is worth doing. Doing something that betters you and not something that is useless to your existence |
According to the hedonic view what makes a good society? | Giving people freedom and allowing people to pursue their own goals freely |
According to the eudaemonic view what makes a good society? | A good society promotes fulfillment of fundamental needs and a emphasis on living a virtuous life. |
Hedonic view of money and wellbeing | if you can use money to get what you desire then you use it |
Eudaemonic view of money and wellbeing | money will often be used to make self feel good but not increase wellbeing, unless used to make others feel good. |
Self determination theory used for Eudaemonic tradition is | human beings have fundamental needs such as autonomy, competence, relatedness which are innate and universal. |
Autonomy is | willing endorsement of own actions |
Competence is | experiencing challenge and feeling of mastery |
Relatedness is | the need to establish stable social relationships |
Intrinsic motivation willl | fulfill need for autonomy and competence and will be undermined by rewards and linked to higher levels of well beings |
Extrinsic motivation states | behaviors are instrumental in some way |
Subjective well being has 2 affective components of | Amount of pleasant and unpleasant emotions |
Subjective well being has 1 cognitive component | life satisfaction |
Hedonic view is subjective well being stating | not everybody is focused on wanting to feel good |
consistency of life satisfaction is related to | extraversion and neuroticism |
Value of power: | social power, authority, wealth |
value of achievement | success, capability, ambition, |
value of hedonism | pleasure, enjoyment of life |
Value of stimulation | a varied life, daring, exciting |
Value of self-direction | independence, freedom, choosing own goals |
value of universalism | social/ecological concerns, equality |
value of benevolence | social relationships, loyalty, true friendship |
value of security | social order, national security, family security, saftey |
value of conformity | dutifulness, politeness, obedience |
Two value dimensions are: | Self-enhancement vs. self-transcendence and openness to change vs conservatism. |
Self enhancement: | wanting money , power and success |
Self transcendence: | caring for things outside self |
openness to change: | new experiences, variety |
conservatism: | stability, order , tradition |