Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Center for Research on Self and Identity, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Jan;62(1):197-214. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12567. Epub 2022 Aug 11.
Global trends surveys suggest that collective nostalgia for one's country is widespread. Moreover, research indicates that collective nostalgia is used by populist radical-right parties to mobilize their voters against immigration. We focused on antecedents of collective nostalgia and its consequences for collective action in the context of national identity. In particular, we hypothesized that collective nostalgia for the country's past is triggered by a sense of collective discontinuity and subsequently engenders collective action intentions to protect the national ingroup and limit the presence of immigrant outgroups. We tested this hypothesis in a three-wave longitudinal cross-lagged panel study (N = 1489) among native Dutch majority members. The results were consistent with the hypothesis. The findings highlight the relevance of collective nostalgia as an emotional response to collective discontinuity that drives collective action intentions aimed at protecting ingroup continuity. We discuss implications of the findings for the literature on collective nostalgia and group dynamics as well as the broader literature on collective action and provide directions for future research.
全球趋势调查表明，对国家的集体怀旧情绪普遍存在。此外，研究表明，集体怀旧情绪被民粹主义极右翼政党用来动员他们的选民反对移民。我们关注的是集体怀旧的前因及其在国家认同背景下对集体行动的影响。特别是，我们假设对国家过去的集体怀旧是由集体不连续性引起的，随后会产生保护国家内群体和限制移民外群体存在的集体行动意图。我们在一项针对荷兰本土多数群体成员的三波纵向交叉滞后面板研究（N=1489）中测试了这一假设。结果与假设一致。研究结果强调了集体怀旧作为对集体不连续性的情感反应的相关性，这种反应推动了旨在保护内群体连续性的集体行动意图。我们讨论了这些发现对集体怀旧和群体动态文献以及更广泛的集体行动文献的意义，并为未来的研究提供了方向。
