چکیده (انگلیسی):

Scholars have recently started to integrate personality traits into models of political participation. In this paper, we present the
results of a survey experiment (N = 724) designed to test whether negative political messages differentially impact people with
different personality traits. We found evidence that individuals with high scores on agreeableness were less likely , and individuals
with high scores on extraversion were more likely , to report intending to participate in politics than their counterparts after
being exposed to negative political messages. Agreeableness and extraversion also interacted with negative messages to
influence specific intentions to make a political donation, attend a meeting, rally , or event, and volunteer for a political campaign.
We also found suggestive evidence that agreeableness interacted with negativity to influence turnout intentions. The results
of this study have important implications for the study of political engagement, the ways in which people interact with political
information, and the practice of democratic politics.