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Anomie, irritation, and happiness in the Chilean society post-social outbreak

On 18 October 2019, the Chilean people witnessed an unprecedented social outbreak across most of their country. We argue that a state of anomie is a factor associated with the weakening of states, and an anomic state might negatively influence people’s well-being through an increased feeling of irri...

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Autores principales: Moyano-Díaz, Emilio, Palomo-Vélez, Gonzalo, Olivos-Jara, Pablo, Maya-López, Yuxa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10128858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37113117
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145121
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author Moyano-Díaz, Emilio
Palomo-Vélez, Gonzalo
Olivos-Jara, Pablo
Maya-López, Yuxa
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Palomo-Vélez, Gonzalo
Olivos-Jara, Pablo
Maya-López, Yuxa
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description On 18 October 2019, the Chilean people witnessed an unprecedented social outbreak across most of their country. We argue that a state of anomie is a factor associated with the weakening of states, and an anomic state might negatively influence people’s well-being through an increased feeling of irritation. Convenience recruitment via social networks allowed us to form a sample of 194 Chilean participants from the center-south region of the country (M = 36.53 years old, SD = 17.48; 56.7% women). All participants completed testing instruments to measure anomie, irritation, happiness, and political beliefs. Descriptive scores suggest situating Chile in the quadrant of high anomie. Two mediation analyses were conducted. The main results showed a negative indirect effect of the breakdown of the social fabric and leadership on happiness through irritation, although the findings for the former dimension were more robust. Additionally, the breakdown of the social fabric was positively related to the belief that left and right-wing democratic governments are helpless when it comes to fighting delinquency. The breakdown of leadership, on the other hand, was negatively related to political interest. The results should be interpreted with caution due to the limitations of the sample type and the construction validity of some instruments.
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spelling pubmed-101288582023-04-26 Anomie, irritation, and happiness in the Chilean society post-social outbreak Moyano-Díaz, Emilio Palomo-Vélez, Gonzalo Olivos-Jara, Pablo Maya-López, Yuxa Front Psychol Psychology On 18 October 2019, the Chilean people witnessed an unprecedented social outbreak across most of their country. We argue that a state of anomie is a factor associated with the weakening of states, and an anomic state might negatively influence people’s well-being through an increased feeling of irritation. Convenience recruitment via social networks allowed us to form a sample of 194 Chilean participants from the center-south region of the country (M = 36.53 years old, SD = 17.48; 56.7% women). All participants completed testing instruments to measure anomie, irritation, happiness, and political beliefs. Descriptive scores suggest situating Chile in the quadrant of high anomie. Two mediation analyses were conducted. The main results showed a negative indirect effect of the breakdown of the social fabric and leadership on happiness through irritation, although the findings for the former dimension were more robust. Additionally, the breakdown of the social fabric was positively related to the belief that left and right-wing democratic governments are helpless when it comes to fighting delinquency. The breakdown of leadership, on the other hand, was negatively related to political interest. The results should be interpreted with caution due to the limitations of the sample type and the construction validity of some instruments. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10128858/ /pubmed/37113117 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145121 Text en Copyright © 2023 Moyano-Díaz, Palomo-Vélez, Olivos-Jara and Maya-López. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Olivos-Jara, Pablo
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10128858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37113117
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145121
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