• DOI:10.1016/J.JRP.2011.12.009
Corpus ID: 4945416

Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction

@article{Schlenker2012ConservativesAH,
  title={Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction},
  author={B. R. Schlenker and John R. Chambers and Bonnie M. Le},
  journal={Journal of Research in Personality},
  year={2012},
  volume={46},
  pages={127-146}
}

B. R. Schlenker, John R. Chambers, Bonnie M. Le

Published 2012

Psychology

Journal of Research in Personality

Political conservatives are happier than liberals. We proposed that this happiness gap is accounted for by specific attitude and personality differences associated with positive adjustment and mental health. In contrast, a predominant social psychological explanation of the gap is that conservatives, who are described as fearful, defensive, and low in self-esteem, will rationalize away social inequalities in order to justify the status quo (system justification). In four studies, conservatives… CONTINUE READING

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