Basic Human Values and Preferences for an EU‐Wide Social Benefit Scheme
研究通过欧洲社会调查数据，发现普遍主义和安全价值观直接影响对欧盟社会福利计划的支持，并通过左右立场、欧洲认同等间接影响，且国家净贡献调节了普遍主义价值观的作用。
Abstract Previous explanations regarding transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU) have mainly focussed on factors including left–right self‐placement, support for European integration and European identity. We expand this model by considering deeper psychological determinants of transnational solidarity: values, operationalised as Schwartz's basic human values of universalism and security. We expect them to exert (1) direct effects on transnational solidarity – measured as support for pan‐European social benefits – and (2) indirect effects via the three aforementioned factors. We test and find evidence to support our theoretical framework using multigroup structural equation modelling and data from the European Social Survey. We further show that the effect size of the value of universalism on preferences for an EU social benefit scheme in each country is positively moderated by that country's net contribution to the EU budget, highlighting the interaction between material interests and psychological value motivations.