Can specific personality traits better explain EU attitudes

摘要: Scholars trying to understand attitudes toward the European Union (EU) are increasingly interested in citizens’ basic predispositions, such as “Big Five” personality traits. However, previous research on this particular relationship has failed provide sound hypotheses and lacks consistent evidence. We propose that looking at specific facets of Big Five offers a deeper understanding associations between their measures, EU attitudes. For purpose, 60-item Inventory-2, which explicitly measures domains facets, was administered German population sample. applied variant structural equation modeling found predispositions promoting communal solidary behavior, cognitive elaboration, lower tendency experience negative emotions predicted support for further integration. Greater integration might thus reflect, part, psychological facilitate adapting political, social, cultural complexity posed by Europeanization. The study contributes our deep-rooted patterns thoughts feelings can shape