Fabisch, Emma (2024) Give Meaning to your Job: an Explanation of the Educational Effect on Extreme Political Voting. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This study highlights the increase in extreme voting behaviour in Europe, which could be caused by distrust in mainstream politics and societal discontent. The level of education is shown to be negatively related to extreme voting behaviour. Higher education is shown to be related to higher perceived job meaningfulness because higher education is related to a higher social status, which can spill over to the occupation. Having a meaningful job could relate to extreme voting behaviour because of feeling respected by society and having a higher status. Therefore, this thesis will look into job meaningfulness as a possible mediator, explaining part of the relationship between level of education and extreme voting behaviour. The ‘International Social Survey Programme 2015’ was used to examine this relationship. Binary logistic analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses. Job usefulness and job pride were used to indicate job meaningfulness. Only job pride is shown to be significant, because the relationship was very small, caution is needed when drawing conclusions. The relationships were small, which could mean that job meaningfulness is not a reason for the found relationship between higher education and extreme voting, which indicates that how one's job is respected in society does not spill over to political alienation. Keywords: Extreme voting behaviour, level of education, meaningful work
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kuppens, T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2024 08:54 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2024 08:54 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3797 |
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