TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between neoliberal belief and socio-political attitude in Japan
T2 - conservative psychological tendencies of neoliberals
AU - Nawata, Kengo
AU - Oga, Toru
AU - Fujimura, Makoto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The study aimed to examine the correlation between neoliberal beliefs and socio-political attitudes in Japan. A comprehensive four-factor scale was customized to assess neoliberal beliefs, making it suitable for Japanese society by creating items that evaluated the four factors and renaming them to align with the Japanese context. This study assesses the following four factors: ‘aversion to reducing inequality,’ ‘endorsement of meritocracy,’ ‘competition,’ and ‘government non-interference.’ Moreover, we incorporated items to gauge ‘personal responsibility,’ which are deemed a fundamental constituent of neoliberalism in Japan but is not directly included in the abovementioned scale. The association between these five sub-components of neoliberal beliefs and socio-political attitudes in Japan, including demographic and psychological variables, attitudes toward policy issues, and political party support, was scrutinized. Our findings consistently demonstrate that neoliberal beliefs are correlated with conservative psychological tendencies.
AB - The study aimed to examine the correlation between neoliberal beliefs and socio-political attitudes in Japan. A comprehensive four-factor scale was customized to assess neoliberal beliefs, making it suitable for Japanese society by creating items that evaluated the four factors and renaming them to align with the Japanese context. This study assesses the following four factors: ‘aversion to reducing inequality,’ ‘endorsement of meritocracy,’ ‘competition,’ and ‘government non-interference.’ Moreover, we incorporated items to gauge ‘personal responsibility,’ which are deemed a fundamental constituent of neoliberalism in Japan but is not directly included in the abovementioned scale. The association between these five sub-components of neoliberal beliefs and socio-political attitudes in Japan, including demographic and psychological variables, attitudes toward policy issues, and political party support, was scrutinized. Our findings consistently demonstrate that neoliberal beliefs are correlated with conservative psychological tendencies.
KW - Daryl O’Connor, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
KW - Multidisciplinary Psychology
KW - Neoliberalism
KW - Political Behavior and Participation
KW - Social Psychology
KW - conservatism
KW - neoliberal belief
KW - personal responsibility
KW - political ideology
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U2 - 10.1080/23311908.2024.2367346
DO - 10.1080/23311908.2024.2367346
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85197544631
SN - 2331-1908
VL - 11
JO - Cogent Psychology
JF - Cogent Psychology
IS - 1
M1 - 2367346
ER -