Victim-focused political apology predicts political support via perceived sincerity, trust and positive emotional climate: The case of the 2018 bushfire in Attica

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2022-09-26 DOI:10.5964/jspp.9671

T. Gkinopoulos

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Abstract

Political leaders tend to apologize for wrongdoings. This study focuses on a disaster that occurred on July 2018 in east Attica, Greece, where wildfires destroyed houses and left dozens of people dead. Two pilot studies and one main study were conducted testing perceptions of apology as sincere, perceived trust, positive emotional climate and participants’ support towards the governmental policies. Participants (N = 180 for the two pilot studies, N = 222 for the main study) were recruited from the disaster zone of east Attica. The focus is on two key forms of political apology, a self or offender-focused apology and a self-other or victim-focused apology. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the conditions equivalent to each of the two forms of apology, that is either in a victim-focused apology condition or an offender-focused apology, or a control condition, where a neutral image was shown to participants. Results showed a positive association between victim-focused apology, compared to offender-focused apology, and political support towards the government via increased perceived sincerity, trust and positive emotional climate. Political and psychological implications related to different forms of public apologies are discussed.

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以受害者为中心的政治道歉通过感知到的诚意、信任和积极的情绪氛围来预测政治支持:以2018年阿提卡森林大火为例

政治领导人倾向于为错误行为道歉。这项研究的重点是2018年7月发生在希腊阿提卡东部的一场灾难，那里的野火摧毁了房屋，造成数十人死亡。两项先导研究和一项主要研究分别测试了被试对道歉的真诚感知、信任感知、积极的情绪氛围和对政府政策的支持度。参与者(两项先导研究N = 180，主要研究N = 222)从阿提卡东部灾区招募。重点是政治道歉的两种主要形式，以自我或冒犯者为中心的道歉和以自我-他人或受害者为中心的道歉。参与者被随机分配到相当于两种道歉形式中的一种，即以受害者为中心的道歉条件或以冒犯者为中心的道歉条件，或对照条件，向参与者展示中性的图像。结果显示，与以冒犯者为中心的道歉相比，以受害者为中心的道歉与通过增加感知的诚意、信任和积极的情绪氛围对政府的政治支持之间存在正相关。讨论了与不同形式的公开道歉相关的政治和心理影响。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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2.70

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4.80%

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40 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.