Regaining In-Group Continuity in Times of Anxiety About the Group’s Future: A Study on the Role of Collective Nostalgia Across 27 Countries
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Abstract. Collective nostalgia for the good old days of the country thrives across the world. However, little is known about the social psychological dynamics of this collective emotion across cultures. We predicted that collective nostalgia is triggered by collective angst as it helps people to restore a sense of in-group continuity via stronger in-group belonging and out-group rejection (in the form of opposition to immigrants). Based on a sample (N = 5,956) of individuals across 27 countries, the general pattern of results revealed that collective angst predicts collective nostalgia, which subsequently relates to stronger feelings of in-group continuity via in-group belonging (but not via out-group rejection). Collective nostalgia generally predicted opposition to immigrants, but this was subsequently not related to in-group continuity.
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Collective angst was negatively associated with in-group continuity but positively associated with national nostalgia.
“the researchers found that collective angst (e.g., 'I am concerned that the future vitality of [country] is in jeopardy') was negatively associated with in-group continuity (e.g., '[Country's] people have maintained their values across time'), but positively associated with national nostalgia”
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National nostalgia was positively associated with in-group continuity, counteracting collective angst.
“National nostalgia was positively associated with in-group continuity, counteracting collective angst.”
From Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia (2023) · cites this paper as Smeekes et al., 2018
A recent cross-cultural study supports the regulatory model's utility at the collective level of analysis.
“A recent cross-cultural study supports the model's utility at this level of analysis (Smeekes etal., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Smeekes, A., Jetten, J., Verkuyten, M., Wohl, M. J. A., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Ariyanto, A., Autin, F., Ayub, N., Badea, C., Besta, T., Butera, F., Costa-Lopes, R., Cui, L., Fantini, C., Finchilescu, G., Gaertner, L., Gollwitzer, M., Gómez, Á., González, R., Hong, Y. Y., Jensen, D. H., Karasawa, M., Kessler, T., Klein, O., Lima, M., Renvik, T. A., Megevand, L., Morton, T., Paladino, P., Polya, T., Ruza, A., Shahrazad, W., Sharma, S., Teymoori, A., Torres, A. R., & van der Bles, A. M.
- Affiliations
- Utrecht University (NL)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Carleton University (CA)
- University of Helsinki, Finland
- University of Indonesia (ID)
- Université de Poitiers (FR)
- Institute of Business Management (PK)
- Université Paris Nanterre (FR)
- University of Gdańsk (PL)
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- University of Lisbon, Portugal
- East China Normal University (CN)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium,
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (ES)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CL)
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Nagoya University (JP)
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe (BR)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Trento, Italy
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia
- National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
- Kurukshetra University (IN)
- Université de Bordeaux (FR)
- Universidade Federal da Paraíba (BR)
- University of Cambridge, UK
- ORCID
- Smeekes, Anouk
- Jetten, Jolanda
- Verkuyten, Maykel
- Wohl, Michael J.A.
- Autin, Frédérique
- Ayub, Nadia
- Badea, Constantina
- Besta, Tomasz
- Butera, Fabrizio
- Cui, Lijuan
- Finchilescu, Gillian
- Gaertner, Lowell
- Gollwitzer, Mario
- Gómez, Ángel
- González, Roberto
- Hong, Ying Yi
- Jensen, Dorthe Høj
- Karasawa, Minoru
- Kessler, Thomas
- Klein, Olivier
- Lima, Marcus
- Renvik, Tuuli A.
- Morton, Thomas
- Sharma, Sushama
- Teymoori, Ali
- Torres, Ana R.
- Venue
- Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Hogrefe Publishing Group
- Published
- 2018-11
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 311-329
- ISSN
- 1864-9335 (ISSN-L)
- 2151-2590
- OpenAlex
- W2897634444
- Cited by
- 68
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 10.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- serval.unil.ch
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Iris (University of Trento) (submittedVersion)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social (15130009)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18H01078)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Memory, History, Trauma, Identity
- Keywords
- collective nostalgia, intergroup relations, cross-cultural comparison, collective emotions
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