{
  "creator": [
    "Lüders, Adrian",
    "Mühlberger, Christina",
    "Jonas, Eva"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2020-10-30"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Research has identified political disenchantment as an important driver for the recent spread of right-wing populism. The cultural backlash approach explains this relationship as a counter response to progressive socio-political developments in Western societies. Drawing on previous work, the present research examines motivational and affective factors underlying the support of right-wing populist parties. We hypothesize that a perceived alienation from the symbolic architecture of a society may decrease levels of psychological need satisfaction, which may catalyze into anxiety and anger. As the “political system” represents an important reflective surface for the socio-political status quo, we expected lower levels of need satisfaction and its resulting affective consequences to help explain the relationship between political disenchantment and right-wing populist support. We tested these tenets based on data from the 2016 Austrian presidential election (n = 626). The results of a structural equation model corroborated our predictions with some exceptions. Data indicated a negative relationship between political disenchantment and need satisfaction. Moreover, decreased need satisfaction was associated with increased self-reported anxiety and anger. Political disenchantment indirectly predicted support for a right-wing populist presidential candidate through decreased need satisfaction and anger, thus corroborating the role of anger as an important driver underlying right-wing populism support. Counterintuitively, the data indicated a negative relationship between anxiety and right-wing support. We discuss theoretical and practical implications, as well as limitations stemming from sample characteristics and the employed cross-sectional design."
  ],
  "format": [
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    "text/html",
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  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2875",
    "10.32872/spb.2875"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2875/2875.pdf",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2875/2875.html",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2875/2875.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2020 Adrian Lüders, Christina Mühlberger, Eva Jonas",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Social Psychological Bulletin; Vol. 15 No. 3 (2020); 1-17",
    "2569-653X",
    "10.32872/spb.v15i3"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "political disenchantment",
    "right-wing populism",
    "populist support",
    "psychological needs",
    "anger",
    "anxiety"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Motivational and Affective Drivers of Right-Wing Populism Support: Insights From an Austrian Presidential Election"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}