Do Good Citizens Look to the Future? The Link Between National Identification and Future Time Perspective and Their Role in Explaining Citizens' Reactions to Conflicts Between Short-Term and Long-Term National Interests

0573804 - PSÚ 2024 US eng J - Journal Article
Jamroz-Dolinska, K. - Sekerdej, M. - Rupar, Mirjana - Koleczek, M.
Do Good Citizens Look to the Future? The Link Between National Identification and Future Time Perspective and Their Role in Explaining Citizens' Reactions to Conflicts Between Short-Term and Long-Term National Interests.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. červen (2023), č. článku 01461672231176337. ISSN 0146-1672. E-ISSN 1552-7433
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : constructive patriotism * conventional patriotism * glorification * future time perspective * temporal framing
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/01461672231176337

When people consider what is good for their country, they might face a conflict between the country's short-term and long-term interests. We suggest that resolving this conflict depends on people's form of national identification and future time perspective. Across four studies (N = 4,274), we showed that constructive patriotism, but not conventional patriotism or glorification, was positively associated with future time perspective. Moreover, we showed that this further translated into people's responses to intertemporal conflicts. Specifically, constructive patriotism was indirectly linked to higher support for national policies with long-term advantages (despite short-term disadvantages) and lower support for national policies with long-term disadvantages (despite short-term advantages), and these links were mediated by future time perspective. Overall, our results demonstrate that distinct forms of national identification are differently linked to future time perspective. Likewise, this helps explain differences in how much people care about their country's present and future.
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