I wanna live my life: Locus of Control and Support for the Welfare StateNo 2014-46, MENDELU Working Papers in Business and Economics from Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to propose a general informal institution determining human ways of thinking and codes of behaviour, thus, in our case, individual support for the Welfare State. For that reason, we recommend employing the two closely related and complementary psychological concepts - locus of control and self-efficacy. We follow a comprehensive concept of the Welfare State, measuring attitudes towards government intervention and income redistribution, using the survey data from the World Values Survey, as well as different indicators for perceived governance quality. Our empirical results show that people with an internal locus of control and high self-efficacy believing in their ability to control their own lives report substantially less positive attitudes towards income equalization and government interventions. Additionally, a higher confidence in government actors and low confidence in major private companies amplify the Welfare State preferences under an external locus of control. Keywords: Locus of control; life control; self-efficacy; informal institutions; Welfare State (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:men:wpaper:46_2014 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MENDELU Working Papers in Business and Economics from Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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