The role of system justification theory in support of the government under long-term conservative party dominance in Japan

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Mizuki Nakagoshi¹  Kazunori Inamasu² 

[1] Graduate School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan;School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan;

关键词: system justification theory;    political ideology;    support for conservative government;    general system justification;    economic system justification;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.909022

 received in 2022-03-31, accepted in 2023-03-07,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The applicability of system justification theory (SJT) in Japan, where political contexts differ from those in Western countries, was evaluated in this study. SJT explains the psychological mechanisms underlying conservatism. Japan, which has a relatively long history as a democracy among East Asian countries, has a special political context. For instance, (1) it has had almost uninterrupted conservative governance since the end of World War II; and (2) unlike Western countries, opinions on economic issues are not clearly linked to conservative attitudes. A web survey of Japanese voters (n = 1,428) revealed that high general system justification (GSJ) and economic system justification (ESJ) were correlated with conservatism. Further, path analysis results showed that GSJ and ESJ predicted conservative attitudes. Additional analysis suggested that the status-legitimacy hypothesis, in which lower status groups have higher system justification motives, is not supported.

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