National prostalgia is associated with decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump's presidency

IF 1.8 4区社会学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI:10.1111/asap.70034

Angel D. Armenta, Demitri Aguilar, Kevin McAweeney, Hannah Volpert-Esmond, Michael A. Zárate

{"title":"National prostalgia is associated with decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump's presidency","authors":"Angel D. Armenta, Demitri Aguilar, Kevin McAweeney, Hannah Volpert-Esmond, Michael A. Zárate","doi":"10.1111/asap.70034","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"National nostalgia is a mechanism through which intergroup hostility is catalyzed. In contrast, national prostalgia has been shown to benefit individuals due to its optimistic and motivational functions. Collective forms of future-oriented thinking, such as national prostalgia, predict increases in support for agents of change in society. Few studies, though, have investigated how future-oriented variables are linked to prejudice or support for political candidates. Thus, we investigated how national nostalgia and prostalgia may predict prejudice (Study 1, N = 177) and support for Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Study 2, N = 110). As hypothesized, national nostalgia and prostalgia respectively predicted increases and decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump. Neither national nostalgia nor prostalgia predicted support for Joe Biden. In Study 1, there was a suppression effect, such that national prostalgia was only a significant predictor of intergroup attitudes when national nostalgia was a predictor in the models. These findings were not a result of individual optimism, political conservatism, gender, age, or associating Trump with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. These results highlight that national prostalgia and nostalgia are distinct psychological phenomena associated with unique consequences.","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/asap.70034","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

National nostalgia is a mechanism through which intergroup hostility is catalyzed. In contrast, national prostalgia has been shown to benefit individuals due to its optimistic and motivational functions. Collective forms of future-oriented thinking, such as national prostalgia, predict increases in support for agents of change in society. Few studies, though, have investigated how future-oriented variables are linked to prejudice or support for political candidates. Thus, we investigated how national nostalgia and prostalgia may predict prejudice (Study 1, N = 177) and support for Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Study 2, N = 110). As hypothesized, national nostalgia and prostalgia respectively predicted increases and decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump. Neither national nostalgia nor prostalgia predicted support for Joe Biden. In Study 1, there was a suppression effect, such that national prostalgia was only a significant predictor of intergroup attitudes when national nostalgia was a predictor in the models. These findings were not a result of individual optimism, political conservatism, gender, age, or associating Trump with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. These results highlight that national prostalgia and nostalgia are distinct psychological phenomena associated with unique consequences.

Abstract Image

查看原文本刊更多论文

国家前列腺症与群体内保护、群体外贬损以及对唐纳德·特朗普总统任期支持的减少有关

民族怀旧是促进群体间敌意的一种机制。相反，国家前列腺因其乐观和激励功能而被证明对个人有益。面向未来的集体思维形式，如国家前列腺癌，预示着对社会变革推动者的支持会增加。然而，很少有研究调查面向未来的变量是如何与偏见或对政治候选人的支持联系在一起的。因此，我们研究了民族怀旧和前列腺癖如何预测偏见（研究1，N = 177）和对唐纳德·特朗普和乔·拜登的支持（研究2，N = 110）。正如假设的那样，民族怀旧和前列腺癖分别预测了群体内保护、群体外贬损和对唐纳德·特朗普的支持的增加和减少。无论是民族怀旧还是怀旧都没有预测到乔·拜登会获得支持。在研究1中，存在抑制效应，即当民族怀旧在模型中是预测因子时，民族前列腺仅是群体间态度的显著预测因子。这些发现不是个人乐观主义、政治保守主义、性别、年龄或将特朗普与移民和海关执法局联系起来的结果。这些结果强调了民族前列腺和怀旧是不同的心理现象，与独特的后果相关。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Multiple-

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Recent articles in ASAP have examined social psychological methods in the study of economic and social justice including ageism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, status quo bias and other forms of discrimination, social problems such as climate change, extremism, homelessness, inter-group conflict, natural disasters, poverty, and terrorism, and social ideals such as democracy, empowerment, equality, health, and trust.