Table 6.

Hierarchical Regression Analysis of Predictors of four Political Variables ⁱ.

	Interest in Politics			Overall Liberal–Conservative Orientation			Socio-Religious Conservatism			Support for Greater Economic Equality
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Predictor variables
Sex ii	−0.14 *	−0.23 ***	−0.23 ***	−0.10	−0.04	−0.03	−0.01	−0.01	0.01	−0.09	−0.03	−0.02
Age	0.25 ***	0.30 ***	0.31 ***	0.14 **	0.08	0.07	0.21 ***	0.11 *	0.11 *	0.03	0.03	0.03
Nationality iii	0.14 *	0.16 *	0.14 *	0.22 ***	0.19 ***	0.18 ***	0.23 ***	0.21 ***	0.18 ***	0.10	0.08	0.09
Neuroticism		0.03	0.04		0.05	0.06		0.15 *	0.17 *		−0.01	−0.03
Extraversion		0.04	0.05		0.06	0.09		0.05	0.05		0.17 **	0.16 *
Openness		0.37 ***	0.37 ***		−0.35 ***	−0.34 ***		−0.35 ***	−0.35 ***		−0.28 ***	−0.28 ***
Agreeableness		0.05	0.00		−0.01	−0.07		0.20 **	0.11		−0.13 *	−0.09
Conscientiousness		0.09	0.08		0.11	0.11		0.05	0.03		0.06	0.06
Narcissism			−0.03			−0.15 *			−0.09			0.03
Machiavellianism			−0.10			−0.12 *			−0.29 ***			0.12
Psychopathy			0.02			0.08			0.09			−0.04
R 2	0.11 ***	0.25 ***	0.25 ***	0.08 ***	0.19 ***	0.18 ***	0.10 ***	0.24 ***	0.30 ***	0.02	0.10 ***	0.11 ***
∆R 2		0.16 ***	0.01		0.11 ***	0.02 *		0.14 ***	0.06 ***		0.09 ***	0.01

ⁱ Standardized Regression Coefficients. ⁱⁱ 1 = men; 2 = women; ⁱⁱⁱ 1 = Canadian; 2 = American. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.