Collective UK nostalgia predicts a desire to leave the European Union

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12728

Jack Loughnane, Jenny Roth, Wijnand van Tilburg

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Collective nostalgia is an emotion experienced when one sentimentally recalls events or things related to a particular social identity. We investigated the relationship between collective nostalgia about the United Kingdom (UK) and UK citizens' desire to leave the European Union (EU). We collected data of UK citizens twice prior to the UK's official withdrawal from the European Union (N = 347 and N = 240) and once afterwards (N = 236). Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis, utilizing cross-lagged panel models, supported the hypothesis that collective UK nostalgia increased the desire to leave the European Union. We additionally hypothesized that the relationship between these variables would be mediated positively by ties to UK citizens and negatively by ties to EU citizens. Exploratory and longitudinal analysis, however, indicated that strength of ties to UK and EU citizens predicts levels of collective UK nostalgia which, in turn, predicts desire to leave the European Union. Specifically, ties to UK citizens were associated with increased collective nostalgia and a desire to leave the EU and ties to EU citizens were associated with reduced collective nostalgia and a desire to re-join the European Union. We discuss the implications of the findings as well as making suggestions for future studies.

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英国人的集体怀旧情绪预示着脱离欧盟的愿望。

集体怀旧是人们在感伤地回忆与特定社会身份相关的事件或事情时产生的一种情绪。我们研究了对英国的集体怀旧情绪与英国公民希望退出欧盟（EU）之间的关系。我们在英国正式退出欧盟之前（347 人和 240 人）和之后（236 人）两次收集了英国公民的数据。利用跨滞后面板模型进行的横向和纵向分析支持了这样的假设，即对英国的集体怀旧情绪会增加脱离欧盟的愿望。此外，我们还假设，这些变量之间的关系将通过与英国公民的联系产生积极的中介作用，而通过与欧盟公民的联系产生消极的中介作用。然而，探索性和纵向分析表明，与英国和欧盟公民的联系强度可预测英国集体怀旧情绪的水平，而英国集体怀旧情绪又可预测脱离欧盟的愿望。具体来说，与英国公民的联系与集体怀旧情绪的增加和脱离欧盟的愿望相关，而与欧盟公民的联系与集体怀旧情绪的减少和重新加入欧盟的愿望相关。我们将讨论研究结果的意义，并为今后的研究提出建议。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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