Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2019 Sep 5;14(9):e0221754. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221754. eCollection 2019.
Contrary to the expectations of many, Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The initial shock to her supporters turned into despair for most, but not everyone was affected equally. We draw from the literature on political activism, identity, and self-other overlap in predicting that not all Clinton voters would be equivalently crushed by her loss. Specifically, we hypothesize that pre-election measures of political activism, and level of self-other identification between participants and Clinton-that is, how much a person was "with her"-will interact to predict the level of distress of Clinton voters two months later. Longitudinal data support our hypothesis. Notably, among Clinton voters, greater activism negatively predicted depressive symptoms, and positively predicted sleep quality, but only when participants were highly identified with Clinton. We discuss the implications of the results for theory and research on social action and well-being.
与许多人的预期相反，希拉里·克林顿输掉了 2016 年美国总统大选。她的支持者最初感到震惊，随后大多数人陷入绝望，但并非所有人都受到同等影响。我们借鉴了关于政治激进主义、身份认同以及自我-他人重叠的文献，预测并非所有克林顿的选民都会因她的失败而同样受到打击。具体来说，我们假设选举前的政治激进主义指标，以及参与者与克林顿之间的自我-他人认同程度——即一个人与她的关系有多密切——将相互作用，预测两个月后克林顿选民的困扰程度。纵向数据支持我们的假设。值得注意的是，在克林顿的选民中，更高的积极性与抑郁症状呈负相关，与睡眠质量呈正相关，但只有当参与者与克林顿高度认同时才会如此。我们讨论了这些结果对社会行动和幸福感理论和研究的意义。
