ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES OF INVOLVEMENT IN HUMAN-RIGHTS AND THEIR SOCIALANCHORING IN VALUE PRIORITIES

Two questionnaire studies were conducted (N = 80 and N = 175) to exami ne the structure and the social anchoring of the organizing principles of personal and governmental involvement concerning human rights. The results indicated that these organizing principles had, as hypothesiz ed one abstract and one applied dimension. The second study evaluated the correlations between these dimensions and values. Results were con sistent with Schwartz's (1992) model predicting both the internal stru cture of values and their relations with other variables. Amongst othe r results, self-transcendence values were positively correlated with t he abstract involvements and the applied personal involvement, and neg atively with the applied governmental involvement. The results concern ing the correlations between conservation values and the four organizi ng principles were the opposite. Results concerning the links between different levels of social anchorings, particularly between the value types and variables such as religious affiliation and practice politic al preferences, and social and political activism were also presented and discussed. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sorts, Ltd.