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  • Is political anxiety different than general anxiety?

  • Aaron Weinschenk, Kevin Smith
  • Journal:
    Politics and the Life Sciences / Volume 43 / Issue 2 / Fall 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 May 2024, pp. 226-234
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  • Recently, there has been growing interest in the concept of political anxiety. One important question that remains unanswered is whether political anxiety is just a symptom of general anxiety—that those reporting anxiety tied to politics are the same individuals who would already score highly on measures of general anxiety. Using survey data collected in 2023 (N = 436), we find that measures of political and generalized anxiety do not appear to be tapping into a single underlying construct. In addition, the systematic correlates of these measures identified by previous literature are not equivalent predictors of the different types of anxiety. Politics seems to be a source of apprehensiveness and worry that affects individuals who are not necessarily suffering from general anxiety.