一个无声而无形的挑战：抑郁症状和对民主制度的评价

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Electoral Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI:10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102928

Claudia Landwehr , Christopher Ojeda , Paul Weingärtner

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摘要

公民的抑郁症状是政治不参与的强烈预测因子，对动机和政治兴趣有相当大的负面影响。显然，抑郁公民与民主制度的联系方式与其他公民明显不同。因此，在这封信中，我们探讨了抑郁症状与民主评估之间的关系。我们测试抑郁症状及其产生的消极偏见是否会导致对民主制度、做法和表现的更多负面评价。根据欧洲社会调查（European Social Survey）的数据，我们发现抑郁对各国对民主的评估和评估维度都有负面影响，平均而言，有抑郁症状的人对自己国家的民主有更多负面看法。一项来自德国的纵向数据分析提供了进一步的证据，表明随着时间的推移，抑郁症的个人变化会导致民主评估的变化。

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A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions

Depressive symptoms in citizens are a strong predictor of political non-participation and have considerable negative effects on motivation and political interest. Apparently, the way in which depressed citizens relate to democratic institutions significantly differs from that of other citizens. In this letter, we therefore explore the relationship between depressive symptoms and the assessment of democracy. We test whether depressive symptoms, and the negativity bias they engender, lead to more negative evaluations of democratic institutions, practices and performance. Drawing on data from the European Social Survey, we find depression has negative effects on the assessment of democracy across countries and evaluative dimensions, and that on average, people with depressive symptoms have more negative views about democracy in their own country. An analysis of longitudinal data from Germany provides further evidence by demonstrating that intrapersonal changes in depression over time lead to changes in democratic evaluations.

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Electoral Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.40

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67 days

期刊介绍： Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping, interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences. Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse approaches. It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses.