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The direct and moderating effects of mass shooting anxiety on political and policy attitudes
dc.contributor.author | Joslyn, Mark R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Haider-Markel, Donald P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-25T16:17:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-25T16:17:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-08-27 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Joslyn, Mark R., and Haider-Markel, Donald P,. “The direct and moderation effects of mass shooting anxiety and policy attitudes.” Research and Politics, vol. 5, issue 3, 2018. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26748 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this article, we examine the effects of individual anxiety after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, mass shooting, which killed 49 people and wounded 58 others. Similar to prior research on the influence of anxiety, after the Orlando shooting anxious citizens supported policies and institutions perceived as protective and capable of minimizing future risks. In addition, anxiety counteracted ideology. Anxious citizens largely abandoned ideological processing, which resulted in a sharp reduction of differences between liberals and conservatives on essential beliefs and preferences associated with mass shootings. However, the degree of ideological abandonment turned on the alignment of ideology and anxiety. When anxiety about the Orlando shooting encouraged support for policies inconsistent with ideological preferences, the influence of ideology on subsequent preferences diminished notably. Conversely, when anxiety prompted support for policies consistent with ideological preferences, anxiety reinforced those preferences. The identification of ideological abandonment after Orlando, and the asymmetric influence of anxiety on political attitudes across ideology, are important contributions to theories of emotion and for research on tragic events. | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Emotions | en_US |
dc.subject | Anxiety | en_US |
dc.subject | Public Opinion | en_US |
dc.subject | Guns | en_US |
dc.subject | Shooting | en_US |
dc.subject | Terrorism | en_US |
dc.title | The direct and moderating effects of mass shooting anxiety on political and policy attitudes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Joslyn, Mark R. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Haider-Markel, Donald P. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Political Science | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168018794060 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |