Correction to Ford et al. (2023)

J Pers Soc Psychol. 2023 Sep;125(3):547. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000349.ABSTRACTReports an error in "The political is personal: The costs of daily politics" by Brett Q. Ford, Matthew Feinberg, Bethany Lassetter, Sabrina Thai and Arasteh Gatchpazian (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023[Jul], Vol 125[1], 1-28). In this article, the third author's affiliation should appear instead as Department of Psychology, New York University. The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2023-32816-001.) Politics and its controversies have permeated everyday life, but the daily impact of politics on the general public is largely unknown. Here, we apply an affective science framework to understand how the public experiences daily politics in a two-part examination. We first used longitudinal, daily diary methods to track two samples of U.S. participants as they experienced daily political events across 2 weeks (Study 1: N = 198, observations = 2,167) and 3 weeks (Study 2: N = 811, observations = 12,790) to explore how these events permeated people's lives and how people coped with that influence. In both diary studies, daily political events consistently not only evoked negative emotions, which corresponded to worse psychological and physical well-being, but also greater motivation to take political action (e.g., volunteer, protest) aimed at changing the political system that evoked these emotions in the firs...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research