"The role of parents' socio political ideology, RWA and SDO in school aged children's social mindfulness"

“Social Mindfulness” is a particular type of pro-social behaviours strictly linked to individual characteristics, such as cognitive, motivational and social components regarding the context where the individual acts (Van Doesum et al., 2013). Being socially mindful means making other-regarding choices, that is being aware that, in a situation of interdependence, your own decisions will affect the range of possibilities of another individual. Social Mindfulness takes its roots from the Interdependence Theory (Kelley & Thibaut, 1978) and SVOs (Van Lange, 1999), according to the personal preference on how allocate limited resources between oneself and another person. Thus, there is strong evidence that pro-socials, individualists and competitors differ in terms of such social preferences when deciding how to allocate limited resources. In this setting, according to the Dual-Process Motivational Model of Ideology and Prejudice (Duckitt et al., 2007, 2009, 2010), one may aspect that political ideology plays an important key role also on Social Mindfulness. People use their world-view to better understand how to interact with others: conservatives are more likely than liberals to see the world as a competitive and threatening place, so probably less likely to be socially mindful; at the opposite, liberals are more open to change and in favour of guaranteeing the same opportunities and rights for the community (Jost et al., 2009), hence they are more likely to make other-oriented choices. The innovative contribution of this preliminary research is to investigate, for the first time in literature, how political ideology and political affiliation may affect other-regarding choices both in adults and in children".