{"id":35214,"date":"2021-03-22T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/controversias-diarias-politica-nos-estresan-empeoran-nuestra-salud"},"modified":"2021-03-22T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:29:18","slug":"las-controversias-diarias-de-la-politica-nos-estresan-y-empeoran-nuestra-salud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/las-controversias-diarias-de-la-politica-nos-estresan-y-empeoran-nuestra-salud\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily political controversies stress us and worsen our health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Politics and its bitter daily controversies are now part of the media and even our lives with the same capacity for penetration as football or the tabloid press. Until very recently, Politics was not the main topic in the media, now it is almost always<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In it next study<\/a>, still in preprint, it is suggested that being subjected to the daily ups and downs of politics, which forces us to position ourselves, polarizes us, disappoints us, makes us hate certain actors or show unbreakable adhesions to surf the cognitive dissonance, finally, acts as a stressor<\/strong>, evokes negative emotions and negatively affects our health.<\/p>\n

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Politics and psychological well-being<\/h2>\n

In the two experiments carried out in the cited study, more than a thousand Americans were asked<\/strong> to keep a diary for 14 or 21 days. At the end of each day, they had to record the political story they had thought about most that day and their emotional reactions. They were also asked to report other more general details about their psychological and physical well-being and their motivation to take any political action.<\/p>\n

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Next, an example of a person's 14-day diary<\/strong>. The blue line marks how negative your emotional response to politics was that day; Here, high means more negative, low means more positive. The dashed red line is a general measure of the person's psychological well-being. We can see that the two lines appear to move in a similar way. On the 4th and 8th, when they weren't thinking about politics, they felt pretty good, all things considered. On days with big political news, not so much.<\/p>\n

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In other words: politics can really ruin your day<\/strong>. In this study, Democrats and liberals had more negative emotional reactions to politics than Republicans and conservatives, but it's difficult to discern how much of that is about partisanship and how much is just about the specific content of political news on the days it was running. they are measuring.<\/p>\n

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Politics has taken on a leading role in our daily lives, which also pushes us to have more opinions about it, to attend more protests and to try to change what is established, but this overexposure also negatively affects our psychological well-being. How, then, can one be committed to politics without suffering for it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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