Abstract

Existing research shows that ideological orientations are stable after young adulthood. Extending research on the sources of ideological stability, we examine social and economic ideology over a 3- to 4-year period in two twin panels (one Danish and one American). We find evidence for the importance of genetic influences and individual life experiences on the stability of social ideology in both contexts; shared environmental factors play an important role in the younger, Danish sample only. For economic ideology, genetic factors contribute to stability in the American sample only. Our findings show that the role of genetic and environmental factors in the stability of ideological orientations varies by type of ideology, national context, and, possibly, age cohort.

中文翻译：

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社会经济思想取向的稳定来源：队列，语境和建构效应

摘要

现有研究表明，成年后的思想取向是稳定的。扩展了对意识形态稳定来源的研究，我们在两到三个小组（一个丹麦人和一个美国人）中研究了3至4年间的社会和经济意识形态。我们发现证据表明在两种情况下遗传影响和个人生活经历对社会意识形态稳定的重要性；共享的环境因素仅在年轻的丹麦样本中发挥重要作用。就经济意识形态而言，遗传因素仅有助于美国样本的稳定性。我们的研究结果表明，遗传和环境因素在意识形态取向稳定中的作用因意识形态类型，国家背景以及年龄组而异。