Table 1
Zero-order correlations.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vote ER | – | –.21 | *** | –.18 | *** | .11 | ** | .16 | *** | .07 | * | .17 | *** | .22 | *** | .19 | *** | .20 | *** |
| Left-right | – | .61 | *** | .25 | *** | .37 | *** | –.07 | * | .05 | –.17 | *** | –.13 | *** | –.07 | * | |||
| Party pref | – | .26 | *** | .38 | *** | –.09 | * | .07 | * | –.11 | ** | –.13 | *** | –.04 | |||||
| SDO | – | .55 | *** | .16 | *** | .16 | *** | –.01 | .05 | .03 | |||||||||
| Prejudice | – | .11 | ** | .25 | *** | .05 | .08 | * | .16 | *** | |||||||||
| IRD | – | .23 | *** | .11 | *** | .50 | *** | .16 | *** | ||||||||||
| GRD | – | .09 | ** | .20 | *** | .13 | *** | ||||||||||||
| France ec | – | .31 | *** | .23 | *** | ||||||||||||||
| Personal ec | – | .18 | *** | ||||||||||||||||
| Future ec | – | ||||||||||||||||||
[i] Note. *p < .05, **p < .005, ***p < .001. Ec = economy.
Figure 1
The effect of party preference on perceptions of GRD. ER voters feel significantly more deprived than supporters of other parties. The red line indicates the GRD overall mean score (M = 2.48, SD = .81).
Table 2
Comparison of the stepwise regression model predicting the ER vote and the self-placement on the left-right political continuum.
| Vote ER | Left-right | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | Adj R2 | β | Adj R2 | |||
| Step 1 | ||||||
| SDO | .02 | .03 | .07 | .13 | ||
| Prejudice | .17 | *** | .32 | *** | ||
| Step 2 | ||||||
| SDO | .01 | .05 | .08 | * | .15 | |
| Prejudice | .13 | ** | .34 | *** | ||
| IRD | .03 | –.13 | *** | |||
| GRD | .14 | *** | –.03 | |||
| Step 3 | ||||||
| SDO | .06 | .13 | .06 | .20 | ||
| Prejudice | .09 | * | .36 | *** | ||
| IRD | –.07 | –.04 | ||||
| GRD | .11 | ** | .01 | |||
| France ec | .17 | *** | –.15 | *** | ||
| Personal ec | .12 | ** | –.10 | * | ||
| Future ec | .14 | *** | –.10 | ** | ||
[i] Note. *p < .05, **p < .005, ***p < .001. ec = economy. Multicollinearity was not a problem as all VIF values were below 1.7. For the last three predictor variables in Step 3, the higher the score the more one endorses pessimistic perspectives on the economy.
Table 3
Mean differences between populist left-wing supporters and populist right-wing supporters on key study variables.
| PG | FN | t(df) | p | d | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| SDO | 1.44 | .45 | 2.17 | .67 | –6.03(84) | <.001 | 1.26 |
| Prejudice | 1.84 | .72 | 3.05 | .55 | –8.72(87) | <.001 | 1.86 |
| IRD | 2.61 | .67 | 3.05 | .68 | –3.12(89) | .002 | .66 |
| GRD | 2.38 | .88 | 3.20 | .91 | –4.33(88) | <.001 | .92 |
| France ec | 3.76 | .79 | 4.15 | .86 | –2.22(89) | .029 | .47 |
| Personal ec | 2.96 | .72 | 3.28 | .91 | –1.85(89) | n.s. | .38 |
| Future ec | 3.29 | 1.10 | 3.48 | 1.13 | –.80(87) | n.s. | .17 |