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This paper examines the relationship between value orientations and attitudes towards political and judicial rights among the Croatian youth and how political preference moderates that relationship. First, it examines which of Schwartz’s value types are reliable predictors for the level of agreement with political and judicial human rights. Next, it examines how value types are related with political preference expressed in a general scale from left to right. Finally, we describe how political preference interacts with value types in their relation to political and judicial rights. The results indicate that value types such as ‘self-direction’ and ‘universalism’ (as well as ‘benevolence’ and ‘achievement’) are related to positive attitudes towards human rights and the political left, while ‘power’ and ‘tradition’ relate to negative attitudes towards human rights and the political right. It was also found that when political preference corresponds with specific value types, it enhances the existing relationship between value orientations and attitudes towards human rights, while a combination of political preference with value types that are atypical for this preference reduces the relationship between value orientations and attitudes towards human rights. The results are discussed against the background of relevant characteristics of present-day Croatia.
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Lindemann and Verkasalo (2005, 172) found relatively good reliability and metric properties of their measurements and we consider it actually more useful when four dimensions are covered. However, in this study we made use of another measurement (i.e. each of the ten value type covered by one item only) that was decided upon by the international research group ‘Religion and Human Rights’.
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Ten point Likert scale from left (1) to right (10); M = 5.75, s.d. 2.27.
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Miloš, D., Novak, K. (2018). The Role of Value Orientations and Political Preference on Political and Judicial Human Rights Among the Croatian Youth. In: Sterkens, C., Ziebertz, HG. (eds) Political and Judicial Rights through the Prism of Religious Belief. Religion and Human Rights, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77353-7_4
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