Humanism and Normativism facet scales and short scales

Artur Nilsson

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Abstract

According to Polarity Theory, all ideologies are fundamentally polarized by a conflict between Humanism, which idealizes and glorifies humanity, and Normativism, which portrays human goodness and worth as contingent upon conformity and achievement. Humanism and Normativism have, however, turned out to be distinct worldviews rather than opposite ends of a single bipolar continuum. Introducing a hierarchical model of their structure and developing scales to measure each facet, I previously showed that they are
negatively related across views of human nature, interpersonal attitudes, and attitudes to affect, but not across epistemologies and political values. This report presents the eight-item facet scales and fifteen-item short-measures of humanism and normativism, along with descriptive statistics for each item in US and Swedish samples.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDepartment of Psychology, Lund University
Number of pages16
Volume15(1)
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameLund Psychological Reports
Volume15(1)
ISSN (Print)1404-8035

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Psychology

Free keywords

  • polarity theory
  • normativism
  • humanism
  • worldview
  • personal ideology

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