2021
DOI: 10.5964/jspp.5927
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Proximal versus distal ecological stress: Socio-ecological influences on political freedom, well-being, and societal confidence in 159 nations

Abstract: Previous work from a socio-ecological perspective reveals that ecological stress has important effects on political, cultural, and psychological outcomes. However, that work has been limited by (1) a focus on distal forms of ecological stress that are hard for societies to control, and (2) a lack of large-scale conceptual replications. The present study aims to fill in these gaps by simultaneously testing the effects of both more distal ecological stress (e.g., climate) and more proximal ecological stress (e.g… Show more

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“…Further, differences between young/old and men/women may be exacerbated in locales with a more general history of socioecological stressors. For example, research shows that ecological stress (such as pre-COVID pathogen levels) is associated in world-wide samples with less literacy (Conway et al, 2022), less happiness (Conway et al, 2021a), and less societal confidence (Conway et al, 2021a). Thus, there is reason 1 A complementary reason why women and younger persons were more psychologically affected by the pandemic is that they lost close others (e.g., spouses and parents/grandparents) at higher levels, as males and the elderly had higher death rates during the pandemic (Krams et al, 2020).…”
Section: Age and Biological Sex Across Cultures: Structural Inequalit...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Further, differences between young/old and men/women may be exacerbated in locales with a more general history of socioecological stressors. For example, research shows that ecological stress (such as pre-COVID pathogen levels) is associated in world-wide samples with less literacy (Conway et al, 2022), less happiness (Conway et al, 2021a), and less societal confidence (Conway et al, 2021a). Thus, there is reason 1 A complementary reason why women and younger persons were more psychologically affected by the pandemic is that they lost close others (e.g., spouses and parents/grandparents) at higher levels, as males and the elderly had higher death rates during the pandemic (Krams et al, 2020).…”
Section: Age and Biological Sex Across Cultures: Structural Inequalit...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Further, differences between young/old and men/women may be exacerbated in locales with a more general history of socioecological stressors. For example, research shows that ecological stress (such as pre-COVID pathogen levels) is associated in world-wide samples with less literacy ( Conway et al, 2022 ), less happiness ( Conway et al, 2021a ), and less societal confidence ( Conway et al, 2021a ). Thus, there is reason to suspect that ecological stressors that existed pre-COVID may have led to exacerbating differences between groups with different levels of resources.…”
Section: Age and Biological Sex Across Cultures: Structural Inequalit...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because political ideology is a shifting standard (see Conway et al, 2021) and the specific political ideologies of "republican" and "democrat" have changed over time (see, e.g., Luks & Elm, 2005), for all ideology analyses, we opted to remove any data that occurred before 1960 for these tests. As seen below, those tests almost uniformly showed similar results to those that combined across party lines.…”
Section: Political Ideologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…American media outlets often associate high morality with their preferred political candidate, regardless of their actual moral traits (for example, Trump or Clinton in the 2016 election; Bhatia et al, 2018). American culture has been reticent to believe climate science, despite very high scientific consensus on the topic (see Conway et al, 2021, for a summary). Americans often believe that religious people are simple-minded, but evidence on the actual complexity of religious persons tells a more complicated story (see Houck et al, 2018).…”
Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Human wellbeing is a combination of the physical, mental, social, and financial aspects of one's life (Zemtsov and Osipova, 2016). Overall, human wellbeing is an outcome of the experience of individuals, which is often a result of interaction between various socio-political and ecological variables (Kaplan et al, 1976;Danna and Griffin, 1999;Stutzer and Frey, 2010;Conway et al, 2021). Human wellbeing has been a focus of social discourse and policymaking since the advent of civilizations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%