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In my survey (18k males), I asked "[In childhood] Was agency/responsibility placed more on you (individualism/grin and bear it/pull yourself up by boostraps), or the world (fight for change/ask for help/demand what you're owed?)" Here's what their answers correlated with

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 21, 2022

All correlations were pretty weak, but in this type of (highly multidimensional, lots of nuanced effects) field, weak correlations can still be interesting (to calibrate, PTSD was correlated with being victim of adult sexual assault at r=0.2 in my data). but anyway

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 21, 2022

Ppl who reported more the "responsibility on me" side of the scale were spanked more often in childhood (r=0.2), had more sexually repressive upbringings (r=.18), scored as slightly more conscientious and had slightly more verbal abuse by a man during childhood (0.13).

Aella

@Aella_Girl

On the other end, ppl who reported more "responsibility on the world" upbringings were correlated with being economically liberal at r=0.17. The next strongest correlation was real weak, which was being into animated porn at r=0.08

3:59 AM · Jun 21, 2022

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thanks for sharing results! Did you define 'economically liberal' during the survey? Did they self report that (if so, what were the options) or did you have indicators for the variable? Asking because people use that term colloquially to mean different things, curious!

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I had it defined as: "Economic leftists tend to prefer higher government involvement in the economy, for example more wellfare or wage regulations. Economic rightists tend to prefer lower government involvement in the economy, for example free markets and low taxes"

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