{
  "creator": [
    "Lewis, Gary J.",
    "de-Wit, Lee"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2019-07-02"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Most psychological research on Brexit categorises participants as either leave or remain supporters. In the current study we take a data-driven approach and identify different clusterings of attitudes towards the European Union (EU) using latent class analysis (LCA), as well as how these classes differ across a range of important social and psychological variables. This analysis revealed 10 distinct classes of voters in a large (N = 15860) adult sample of UK citizens using data from the British Election Study. These classes ranged from being quite uniformly pro- or anti-EU in sentiment, to more mixed groups with more complex patterns of attitudes. The classes that included majority-remain supporters were younger and better educated, and self-rated more highly on the measures of actively open-minded thinking, openness, political trust, and external locus of control. The classes that included majority-leave supporters were older and less well educated, and self-rated more highly on the measures of authoritarianism and conscientiousness. However, there were also notable demographic and psychological differences within the classes associated with leavers and remainers. A full consideration of these attitudinal nuances will be necessary to achieve a deeper understanding of why the UK decided to leave the EU."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5159",
    "10.5964/jspp.v7i1.981"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5159/5159.pdf",
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5159/5159.html",
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5159/5159.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Journal of Social and Political Psychology; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019); 556-576",
    "2195-3325"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "latent class analysis",
    "Brexit",
    "authoritarianism",
    "Big Five personality",
    "actively open-minded thinking",
    "political trust"
  ],
  "title": [
    "How Many Ways to Say Goodbye? The Latent Class Structure and Psychological Correlates of European Union Sentiment in a Large Sample of UK Adults"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article"
  ]
}