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> Hetherington found that the very liberal participants in his survey tended to be the most neurotic. I would expect that measurement to rise on both extremes.
by hirundo 5y ago
> Hetherington found that the very liberal participants in his survey tended to be the most neurotic.
I would expect that measurement to rise on both extremes. If you think that there is something very wrong with the status quo it is quite natural that you will be more stressed, have more anxiety, and tend to be more neurotic. Not that there aren't very stable, serene, salt of the earth types on all sides, just that the worriers will be more common the further their preferred reality diverges from the actual one.
- snicker7 5y agoOr the causality might be reversed. Neuroticism may attract people to extreme ideologies.