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Upshaw NC, Lim N, Graves CC, Marshall-Lee ED, Farber EW, Kaslow NJ. Training Psychology and Psychiatry Diversity Dialogue Facilitators. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 2024; 31:292-303. [PMID: 37932519 DOI: 10.1007/s10880-023-09978-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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This article describes a Diversity Dialogue Facilitator Training Program for Trainees, an innovative project that prepares psychology and psychiatry learners to facilitate diversity dialogues with healthcare professionals (i.e., clinical and research faculty, staff, and learners) in academic healthcare settings. Through participating in this program, trainees learn to facilitate discussions in which participants reflect upon oppression, discrimination, and disparities; explore their biases; connect and exchange views with colleagues regarding challenging societal events; and delineate action steps for advancing equity, inclusion, social responsivity, and justice in their professional and personal lives. After outlining contextual factors that informed project development, implementation, and dissemination, the iterative process of creating and implementing the training curriculum is detailed, with the aim of offering a model for other academic health center-based training programs interested in establishing a similar initiative. Lessons learned also are shared with the hope of contributing to future efforts to advance training in diversity dialogue facilitation and expand the role of psychologists in medical settings.
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- Naadira C Upshaw
- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 12 Executive Park Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 12 Executive Park Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 12 Executive Park Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 12 Executive Park Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 12 Executive Park Dr, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA.
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Lin YC, Yan HT. Impact of Residential Area Characteristics and Political Group Participation on Depression Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Results of an 11-Year Longitudinal Study. Innov Aging 2024; 8:igae004. [PMID: 38426023 PMCID: PMC10902823 DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igae004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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Background and Objectives The claim that political group attendance is associated with poor mental health among older adults may be conditioned on geographic conditions. This study examined the geographical context in which political group participation may be associated with depression. Research Design and Methods The 11-year follow-up data from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging, covering 5,334 persons aged ≥50 years, were analyzed using random-effects panel logit models. Depression was assessed using 10 items on the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale. Participants were asked to indicate whether they belonged to different social groups. We modeled depression as a function of political group participation (the independent variable) and geographical region (moderators), adjusting for individual-level characteristics. Results Respondents in political groups were more likely to report depression than those in nonpolitical groups (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.90, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.34-2.68). Between urban and rural settlements, there were no statistically significant differences in mental health outcomes among older adults engaged in political groups (AOR = 1.72, 95% CI = 0.81-3.67). For those who remained politically engaged, living in areas with lower levels of electoral competition was associated with a lower likelihood of depression (AOR = 0.92, 95% CI = 0.86-0.98); this conditional effect was not prevalent among those who were solely engaged in nonpolitical groups (AOR = 1.02, 95% CI = 0.99-1.03). Discussion and Implications Political group participation is associated with poor mental health among older adults living in politically competitive regions.
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- Yu-Chun Lin
- Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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Fraser T, Panagopoulos C, Smith K. Election-Related Post-Traumatic Stress: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Politics Life Sci 2023; 42:179-204. [PMID: 37987568 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2023.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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The 2020 U.S. presidential election saw rising political tensions among ordinary voters and political elites, with fears of election violence culminating in the January 6 riot. We hypothesized that the 2020 election might have been traumatic for some voters, producing measurable symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We also hypothesized that negative sentiment toward the opposing party correlates with PTSD. We measured PTSD using a modified version of the PCL-5, a validated PTSD screener, for 573 individuals from a nationally representative YouGov sample. We modeled the association between affective polarization and PTSD, controlling for political, demographic, and psychological traits. We estimate that 12.5% of American adults (95% CI: 9.2% to 15.9%) experienced election-related PTSD, far higher than the annual PTSD prevalence of 3.5%. Additionally, negativity toward opposing partisans correlated with PTSD symptoms. These findings highlight a potential need to support Americans affected by election-related trauma.
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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Külz J, Spitz A, Abu-Akel A, Günnemann S, West R. United States politicians' tone became more negative with 2016 primary campaigns. Sci Rep 2023; 13:10495. [PMID: 37380698 PMCID: PMC10307896 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36839-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
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There is a widespread belief that the tone of political debate in the US has become more negative recently, in particular when Donald Trump entered politics. At the same time, there is disagreement as to whether Trump changed or merely continued previous trends. To date, data-driven evidence regarding these questions is scarce, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining a comprehensive, longitudinal record of politicians' utterances. Here we apply psycholinguistic tools to a novel, comprehensive corpus of 24 million quotes from online news attributed to 18,627 US politicians in order to analyze how the tone of US politicians' language as reported in online media evolved between 2008 and 2020. We show that, whereas the frequency of negative emotion words had decreased continuously during Obama's tenure, it suddenly and lastingly increased with the 2016 primary campaigns, by 1.6 pre-campaign standard deviations, or 8% of the pre-campaign mean, in a pattern that emerges across parties. The effect size drops by 40% when omitting Trump's quotes, and by 50% when averaging over speakers rather than quotes, implying that prominent speakers, and Trump in particular, have disproportionately, though not exclusively, contributed to the rise in negative language. This work provides the first large-scale data-driven evidence of a drastic shift toward a more negative political tone following Trump's campaign start as a catalyst. The findings have important implications for the debate about the state of US politics.
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- Jonathan Külz
- Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Fenn N, Sacco A, Monahan K, Robbins M, Pearson-Merkowitz S. Examining the relationship between civic engagement and mental health in young adults: a systematic review of the literature. JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES 2022; 27:558-587. [PMID: 38706784 PMCID: PMC11068018 DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2022.2156779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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Researchers have examined civic engagement as a health promotion tool among older adults and adolescents, yet less is known about its mental health implications for young adults. This systematic review identified 53 articles on civic engagement and well-being in young adults. Five key themes emerged: (1) varying associations between type of civic engagement and well-being, (2) duration and frequency of civic behaviors, (3) directionality in the civic-to-well-being pathway, (4) mediation and moderation factors affecting the civic-to-well-being pathway, and (5) civic engagement as a tool for coping with adversity or systemic oppression. Civic engagement demonstrates a heterogeneous relationship to well-being; future research should focus on the explanatory pathways for positive, negative, and null correlations particularly among historically marginalized young adults.
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- Natalie Fenn
- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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Nelson MH. Resentment Is Like Drinking Poison? The Heterogeneous Health Effects of Affective Polarization. JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR 2022; 63:508-524. [PMID: 35148647 PMCID: PMC9716484 DOI: 10.1177/00221465221075311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Affective polarization-the tendency for individuals to exhibit animosity toward those on the opposite side of the partisan divide-has increased in the United States in recent years. This article presents evidence that this trend may have consequences for Americans' health. Structural equation model analyses of nationally representative survey data from Pew Research Center's American Trends Panel (n = 4,685) showed heterogeneous relationships between affectively polarized attitudes and self-rated health. On one hand, such attitudes were directly negatively associated with health such that the polarized political environment was proposed to operate as a sociopolitical stressor. Simultaneously, affective polarization was positively associated with political participation, which in turn was positively associated with health, although the direct negative effect was substantially larger than the indirect positive one. These results suggest that today's increasingly hostile and pervasive form of partisanship may undermine Americans' health even as it induces greater political engagement.
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- Micah H. Nelson
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Mukhopadhyay S. Elections have (health) consequences: Depression, anxiety, and the 2020 presidential election. ECONOMICS AND HUMAN BIOLOGY 2022; 47:101191. [PMID: 36257104 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In this paper, we examine the effect of the 2020 presidential election on anxiety and depression among Americans. We use data from the 2020 Household Pulse Survey (HPS), a nationally representative rapid response survey conducted weekly from April to July of 2020 and then bi-weekly until December of 2021. The high-frequency nature of the survey implies that we can identify week-to-week changes in mental health outcomes. We find that self-reported symptoms of moderate to severe anxiety and depression increased steadily up to the presidential election and declined after the election. The anxiety and depression levels are significantly higher around the 2020 election than in April 2020, when most of the U.S. was under mandatory or advisory stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, anxiety and depression-specific office visits and usage of mental-health-specific prescription drugs show similar patterns. Robustness checks rule out alternative explanations such as a COVID-19 surge or vaccine development.
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The prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of mental health problems and mental health service use before and 9 months after the COVID-19 outbreak among the general Dutch population. A 3-wave prospective study. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0276834. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Objectives
Gain insight into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of mental health problems among the Dutch general population and different age groups in November-December 2020, compared with the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors in the same period in 2018 and 2019. More specifically, the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of anxiety and depression symptoms, sleep problems, fatigue, impaired functioning due to health problems, and use of medicines for sleep problems, medicines for anxiety and depression, and mental health service.
Methods
We extracted data from the Longitudinal Internet studies for the Social Sciences (LISS) panel that is based on a probability sample of the Dutch population of 16 years and older by Statistics Netherlands. We focused on three waves of the longitudinal Health module in November-December 2018 (T1), November-December 2019 (T2), and November-December 2020 (T3), and selected respondents who were 18 years and older at T1. In total, 4,064 respondents participated in all three surveys. Data were weighted using 16 demographics profiles of the Dutch adult population. The course of mental health problems was examined using generalized estimating equations (GEE) for longitudinal ordinal data and differences in incidence with logistic regression analyses. In both types of analyses, we controlled for sex, age, marital status, employment status, education level, and physical disease.
Results
Among the total study sample, no significant increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms, sleep problems, fatigue, impaired functioning due to health problems, use of medicines for sleep problems, of medicines for anxiety and depression, and of mental health service in November-December 2020 was observed, compared with the prevalence in November-December 2018 and 2019 (T3 did not differ from T1 and T2). Among the four different age categories (18–34, 35–49, 50–64, and 65 years old and older respondents), 50–64 years respondents had a significantly lower prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms at T3 than at T1 and T2, while the prevalence at T1 and T2 did not differ. A similar pattern among 65+ respondents was found for mental health service use. We found no indications that the incidence of examined health problems at T2 (no problems at T1, problems at T2) and T3 (no problems at T2, problems at T3) differed. Risk factors for mental health problems at T2 were mostly similar to risk factors at T3; sex and age were less/not a risk factor for sleep problems at T3 compared with at T2.
Conclusions
The prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of the examined mental health problems examined nine months after the COVID-19 outbreak appear to be very stable across the end of 2018, 2019, and 2020 among the Dutch adult population and different age categories, suggesting that the Dutch adult population in general is rather resilient given all disruptions due to this pandemic.
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Topazian RJ, Levine AS, McGinty EE, Barry CL, Han H. Civic engagement and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:869. [PMID: 35501842 PMCID: PMC9058736 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13289-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Background To examine the relationship between civic association participation and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly whether different forms of engagement mitigate the increased rates of psychological distress throughout 2020. Methods Panel survey data collected from a nationally representative cohort of 1222 U.S. adults. Data was collected in three waves in April, July, and November 2020. Psychological distress was measured using the validated Kessler-6 instrument in November 2020. Results Respondents belonging to political associations were more likely to experience psychological distress (difference in predicted level of psychological distress on a 0-1 scale: 0.098, p ≤ .05) relative to those in unknown associations. However, individuals in political associations who more frequently interacted with others had lower levels of psychological distress (−.065, p ≤ .05) compared to those in political associations with less frequent interactions. Conclusions Civic engagement that facilitates interpersonal interactions may protect against psychological distress. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-13289-4.
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- Rachel J Topazian
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Zhu X, Neupert SD. Anticipatory stress during an election: A daily diary study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2022; 57:629-633. [PMID: 35501144 DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Previous research on election stress has focused on reacting to stressors that already occurred, whereas the forecasting of future stressors and associated responses have been underexamined. Leveraging the 2018 U.S. mid-term election, we examined anticipatory stress response, operationalised as the within-person association between daily stressors forecasting and negative affect (NA). We also explore whether such responses might be related to time, partisanship and political orientation. Participants were 125 adults in the U.S. who provided 1056 daily reports in a 29-day daily diary study surrounding the election. Results indicated that daily forecasts of election stressors contributed to increased NA independent of election stressor exposure. Election stressor forecasting was more pronounced during pre-election days and the election day than post-election days, as well as greater in conservatives than liberals. Coping with anticipatory stress may be important for managing election stress.
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- Xianghe Zhu
- Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Fraser T, Aldrich DP, Panagopoulos C, Hummel D, Kim D. The harmful effects of partisan polarization on health. PNAS NEXUS 2022; 1:pgac011. [PMID: 36712795 PMCID: PMC9802430 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Revised: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Partisan polarization significantly drives stress and anxiety among Americans, and recent aggregate-level studies suggest polarization may be shaping their health. This individual-level study uses a new representative dataset of 2,752 US residents surveyed between December 2019 and January 2020, some US residents report more days of poor physical and mental health per month than others. Using negative binomial models, zero inflated models, and visualizations, we find evidence that polarization is linked to declines in physical health: the more distant an individual feels politically from the average voter in their state, the worse health outcomes he or she reports. By uncovering the individual-level political correlates of health, this study aims to encourage further study and attention to the broader consequences of political polarization on American communities.
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- Timothy Fraser
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: 960A Renaissance Park, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115.
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- Political Science Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Political Science Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Economics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Smith KB. Politics is making us sick: The negative impact of political engagement on public health during the Trump administration. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0262022. [PMID: 35030195 PMCID: PMC8759681 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To quantify the effect of politics on the physical, psychological, and social health of American adults during the four-year span of the Trump administration. METHODS A previously validated politics and health scale was used to compare health markers in nationally representative surveys administered to separate samples in March 2017 (N = 800) and October 2020 (N = 700). Participants in the 2020 survey were re-sampled approximately two weeks after the 2020 election and health markers were compared to their pre-election baselines. RESULTS Large numbers of Americans reported politics takes a significant toll on a range of health markers-everything from stress, loss of sleep, or suicidal thoughts to an inability to stop thinking about politics and making intemperate social media posts. The proportion of Americans reporting these effects stayed stable or slightly increased between the spring of 2017 and the fall of 2020 prior to the presidential election. Deterioration in measures of physical health became detectably worse in the wake of the 2020 election. Those who were young, politically interested, politically engaged, or on the political left were more likely to report negative effects. CONCLUSIONS Politics is a pervasive and largely unavoidable source of chronic stress that exacted significant health costs for large numbers of American adults between 2017 and 2020. The 2020 election did little to alleviate those effects and quite likely exacerbated them.
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- Kevin B. Smith
- Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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Oosterhoff B, Poppler A, Hill RM, Fitzgerald H, Shook NJ. Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context. INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/icd.2280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Department of Psychology Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital Houston Texas USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USA
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- School of Nursing University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USA
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Zhu X, Neupert SD. Core Beliefs Disruption in the Context of an Election: Implications for Subjective Well-Being. Psychol Rep 2021; 125:2546-2570. [PMID: 34098789 DOI: 10.1177/00332941211021347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Major life events often challenge the core beliefs people hold about the world, which is a crucial cognitive process predictive of adjustment outcomes. Elections have been associated with physical and socioemotional responses, but what is unclear is whether core beliefs can be disrupted and what implication this disruption might have for well-being. In two studies, we examined the association between core beliefs disruption and well-being in the context of the 2018 U.S. midterm election. In both studies, participants reported a small degree of disruption of core beliefs due to the election. In Study 1, a 14-day daily diary study spanning the weeks before and after the election, multilevel modeling on 529 daily reports revealed that greater disruption of core beliefs was associated with lower mean levels of life satisfaction and greater changes in positive and negative affect. In Study 2, a cross-sectional study conducted 40 days following the election, linear regression analyses on 767 adults aged 18-77 from all 50 states revealed that the disruption of core beliefs due to the midterm election was positively associated with current life satisfaction. The effect held when controlling for multiple confounding factors. These findings suggest that elections can trigger disruption of core beliefs, and this disruption may spill over to subjective well-being in the short term but may positively contribute to post-election adjustment.
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- Xianghe Zhu
- Department of Psychology, 6798North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, 6798North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Niederdeppe J, Avery RJ, Liu J, Gollust SE, Baum L, Barry CL, Welch B, Tabor E, Lee NW, Fowler EF. Exposure to televised political campaign advertisements aired in the United States 2015-2016 election cycle and psychological distress. Soc Sci Med 2021; 277:113898. [PMID: 33848716 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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CONTEXT Prior research suggests the potential for political campaign advertisements to increase psychological distress among viewers. The current study tests relationships between estimated exposure to campaign advertising and the odds of respondents reporting that a doctor told them they have anxiety, depression, insomnia, or (as a negative control) cancer. METHODS A secondary analysis of U.S. data on televised campaign ad airings from January 2015 to November 2016 (n = 4,659,038 airings) and five waves of a mail survey on television viewing patterns and self-reported medical conditions from November 2015 to March 2017 (n = 28,199 respondents from n = 16,204 unique households in the U.S.). FINDINGS A 1 percent increase in the estimated volume of campaign advertising exposure was associated with a 0.06 [95% CI 0.03-0.09] percentage point increase in the odds of a respondent being told by a doctor that they have anxiety in the past 12 months. We observed this association regardless of the political party of the ad sponsor, the political party of the respondent, or their statistical interaction. We also observed this association for both Presidential campaign ads and non-Presidential (including local, state, and U.S. congressional election) campaign ads, providing evidence that these relationships were not driven by the unique divisiveness of the race between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. Some topic-specific models offered additional evidence of association between estimated volume of campaign advertising exposure and the odds of being told by a doctor that they have depression or insomnia, but these patterns were less consistent across models that utilized different categories of campaign exposure. Campaign ad exposure was not associated with cancer, which served as a negative control comparison. CONCLUSIONS There was a consistent positive association between the volume of campaign advertising exposure and a reported diagnosis of anxiety among American adults.
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- Jeff Niederdeppe
- Department of Communication, 476 Mann Library Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
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- Department of Policy Analysis and Management, 2303 Martha Van Rensselear Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Communication, 476 Mann Library Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Division of Health Policy and Management, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Wesleyan Media Project and Department of Government, 238 Church St, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 06459, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 Broadway, Hampton House 482, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA; Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy Research, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Policy Analysis and Management, 2303 Martha Van Rensselear Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Policy Analysis and Management, 2303 Martha Van Rensselear Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Policy Analysis and Management, 2303 Martha Van Rensselear Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Wesleyan Media Project and Department of Government, 238 Church St, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 06459, USA
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Oosterhoff B, Hill RM, Slonaker NJ. Longitudinal associations between civic engagement and interpersonal needs during the 2018 US midterm elections. APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2020.1787169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital
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Mortell S. Logotherapy to Mitigate the Harmful Psychological Effects of Current Events: A Tool for Nurses. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 2020; 58:38-42. [PMID: 32065656 DOI: 10.3928/02793695-20200127-01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
Evidence suggests that political or current events can have adverse effects on mental health. Since the 2016 election, many mental health professionals have also noted a surge among Americans who associate their mental health symptoms with current events. It is therefore possible that when nurses speak with patients, discussions of current events will arise. Logotherapy is introduced as a tool that can help facilitate these discussions and a way that nurses might assist patients who are adversely affected by current events. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 58(4), 38-42.].
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