Fitting Security into the Swiss Value Landscape

The Author: Jonathan Bennett studied psychology, psychopathology, and English literature at the University of Zurich. From 1999-2004 he worked as a research assistant at the Military Academy at the ETH Zurich publishing numerous articles and book contributions on security from a psychological and sociological perspective. He is a research associate in the public health administration of the canton of Berne, Switzerland.

• Contents: Security - a signifier with many significations – Personal security - psychological approaches – Conceptualizing security from the perspective of values – The research question – Method – Results – The relationship between self-efficacy and predictions of future value importance – What do Swiss citizens associate with security?