‘Betrayed Believers’: The Target of Influence of Extreme Right-Wing Minorities

Xenia Chryssochoou

doi:10.5334/irsp.38

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Table 1

Means and Standard Deviations of the Three Groups on Perceptions of the Crisis and the Situation in Greece and of the Social Order.

	Group A Challengers	Group B Disaffected	Group C Pro-system
Attribution to Global power-system	5.64 (0.84)^a	5.75 (0.83)^a	4.40 (0.98)^b
Attribution to Groups and mentality	3.65 (1.0)^a	4.38 (1.03)^b	4.03 (0.84)^c
Attribution to Greek-State and governments	6.37 (0.77)^a	6.40 (0.67)^a	5.54 (0.99)^b
Fear-frustration	4.28 (0.96)^a	4.05 (1.13)^a	3.42 (1.11)^b
Positive Emotions-Optimism	4.20 (0.98)^a	4.85 (1.15)^b	4.83 (1.06)^b
Anger	6.05 (.1.04)^a	5.94 (0.99)^a	4.72 (1.36)^b
Collective solutions	5.66 (0.93)^a	5.97 (0.93)^a	4.94 (0.95)^b
Individualistic solutions	2.09 (1.13)^a	2.98 (1.31)^b	2.75 (.1.22)^b
Polarized climate	4.34 (1.31)^a	5.48 (0.88)^b	3.90 (1.18)^c
Conspiracy	5.27 (1.04)^a	5.99 (0.95)^b	3.95 (1.22)^c
Disintegration	6.01 (0.85)^a	6.42 (0.66)^b	5.93 (0.90)^a
Ethnocentrism-against immigration	2.92 (1.33)^a	4.98 (1.11)^b	3.16 (1.06)^a
Class hatred	4.33 (1.21)^a	5.02 (1.15)^b	3.43 (0.85)^c
Mobility effort	3.00 (1.28)^a	5.60 (1.22)^b	4.96 (1.29)^c
Mobility membership	4.97 (1.32)^a	4.77 (1.71)^a	2.95 (1.11)^b

[i] Note: Scale from 1 = totally disagree to 7 = totally agree. Different letters correspond to significant differences (p < 0.05) in means (post-hoc Games-Howell).

Table 2

Means and Standard Deviations of Different Beliefs and Identifications of the Three Profiles.

	Group A Challengers	Group B Disaffected	Group C Pro-system
I do not control different aspects of my life	3.60 (1.7)^a	3.56 (1.74)^a	3.00 (1.5)^b
My life depends on the intervention of divine and metaphysical forces	2.03 (1.63)^a	3.6 (2.17)^b	1.99 (1.43)^a
In relation to 2009 my family financial situation is today (1 = much worse, 7 = much better)	2.38 (1.20)^a	3.02 (1.50)^b	3.07 (1.36)^b
I believe that I deserve much more than what I have at the moment	5.21 (1.47)^a	5.10 (1.48)^a	4.38 (1.57)^b
Vulnerability	4.58 (1.35)^a	4.01 (1.41)^b	3.77 (1.26)^b
Political Self-Positioning (1 = extreme left, 10 = extreme right)	4.14 (1.69)^a	5.47 (2.06)^b	5.16 (1.46)^b
National identification	4.60 (1.33)^a	5.69 (.81)^b	4.94 (1.05)^a
System justifying (Greece a fair society)	2.08 (0.95)^a	2.89 (1.13)^b	2.64 (0.98)^b
Failed expectations from Greek Democracy (metapoliteysi)	5.82 (1.11)^a	5.96 (0.96)^a	4.70 (1.25)^b
Failed expectations from EU	5.58 (1.34)^a	5.49 (1.35)^a	4.20 (1.14)^b
Awaiting salutary solution from the EU for the GR crisis	2.45 (1.55)^a	3.79 (2.07)^b	3.28 (1.53)^b

[i] Note: Unless otherwise stated, the scales ranged from 1 = totally disagree to 7 = totally agree). Different letters correspond to significant differences (p < 0.05) in means (post-hoc Games-Howell).

Table 3

Means and Standard Deviations of the Extreme Right-Wing (F) Beliefs.

	Group A Challengers	Group B Disaffected	Group C Pro-system
Leadership-order	2.94 (1.11)^a	4.32 (1.12)^b	3.02 (1.00)^a
Group hierarchy	1.80 (0.78)^a	2.35 (1.07)^b	1.99 (0.85)^a
Religious morality	2.22 (1.07)^a	3.64 (1.36)^b	2.54 (1.00)^c
Obedience-discipline	2.46 (1.13)^a	3.89 (1.17)^b	3.11 (1.00)^c
Against minorities	3.13 (1.38)^a	4.70 (1.18)^b	3.53 (1.17)^c

[i] Note: Scale from 1 = totally disagree to 7 = totally agree. Different letters correspond to significant differences (p < 0.05) in means (post-hoc Games-Howell).

Table 4

Means and Standard Deviations) of the Agreement with Violent Beliefs and Practices.

	Group A Challengers	Group B Disaffected	Group C Pro-system
Activist violent practices	3.01 (1.53)^a	2.95 (1.56)^a	2.25 (0.97)^b
Violence towards the weak	1.78 (0.99)^a	2.48 (1.20)^b	1.85 (0.90)^a
Extermination of the opponent	3.76 (1.50)^a	4.56 (1.36)^b	3.14 (1.10)^c
Intolerance-devaluation	3.09 (1.28)^ab	3.31 (1.33)^a	2.81 (1.00)^b
Defensive violence	3.09 (1.05)^ab	3.41 (1.27)^a	2.91 (1.07)^b

[i] Note: Scale from 1 = totally disagree to 7 = totally agree. Different letters correspond to significant differences (p < 0.05) in means (post-hoc Games-Howell).

‘Betrayed Believers’: The Target of Influence of Extreme Right-Wing Minorities

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