当政治变得个人化:作为日常身份工作的学生会话策略。

IF 2.5 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Toralf Tony Zschau, Hosuk Lee, Jason Miller
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美国的政治两极分化使得跨越意识形态分歧的对话越来越难以驾驭。本研究探讨了美国南部一所地区性大学的学生如何体验和应对这些挑战。基于对来自不同社会和政治背景的30名学生的深度访谈,我们确定了四种关键的会话策略:脱离参与、谈判、语境适应和信息处理。我们不认为这些是表面的技术,我们认为它们代表了更深层次的身份管理过程,旨在减少政治分歧的社会和认知风险。利用自我分类理论和身份控制理论,我们展示了当政治身份变得突出时,这些策略如何反映维持身份一致性和管理关系利害关系的努力。我们的研究结果表明,虽然这些策略可以帮助学生避免目前的冲突,但它们也可能限制跨部门的更深层次的参与。最后,我们讨论了这些发现对对话练习的影响,强调了培养对身份不适的宽容的重要性,并帮助学生重新发现将他们团结在政治分歧中的共同纽带。
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When Politics Gets Personal: Students' Conversational Strategies as Everyday Identity Work.

Political polarization in the United States has made conversations across ideological divides increasingly difficult to navigate. This study explores how students at a regional university in the southern U.S. experience and manage these challenges. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 students from diverse social and political backgrounds, we identify four key conversational strategies: disengagement, negotiation, context adaptation, and information processing. Rather than viewing these as surface-level techniques, we argue they represent deeper identity management processes aimed at reducing the social and cognitive risks of political disagreement. Drawing on Self-Categorization Theory and Identity Control Theory, we show how these strategies reflect efforts to maintain identity coherence and manage relational stakes when political identity becomes salient. Our findings suggest that while these strategies may help students avoid conflict in the moment, they may also limit deeper engagement across divides. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for dialog practice, highlighting the importance of fostering tolerance for identity discomfort and helping students rediscover the common bonds that unite them across political differences.

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Behavioral Sciences
Behavioral Sciences Social Sciences-Development
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