Big-Five Personality and Political Orientation: Results From Four Panel Studies With Representative German Samples

Abstract The aim of this brief report was to replicate the meta-analytic findings concerning the relationship between Big-Five personality and political orientation reported in Sibley, Osborne, and Duckitt (2012) in a sample of N  = 29,015 participants from four panels involving representative German samples. We replicated the expected significant correlations for Openness to Experience ( r  = −0.07; 95% CI [−0.10, −0.05]) and Conscientiousness ( r  = 0.06, 95% CI [0.05, 0.08]), but the effect sizes were smaller than in Sibley et al. (2012) . We also found significant correlations for Agreeableness ( r  = −0.04; 95% CI [−0.05, −0.03]) and Neuroticism ( r  = −0.04; 95% CI [−0.06, −0.02]), indicating small but significant relations of additional Big-Five dimensions on political orientation.