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Political conservatism scale (SECS)

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About this scale

In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have discussed the psychology underlying political attitudes. Jim Everett developed a simple scale to measure political conservatism. It is only 12 items. The challenge of this type of scale is that it is very time and location dependend. That is, what is considered political conservative in one country might not be in another, and positions and political issues change over time. This all discussed in the

Sample item(s)

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Source & citation

Everett, J.E. (2013). The 12 Item Social and Economic Conservatism Scale (SECS). Open access link here

in the accompanying open access paper by Everett
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