RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Disconnected Out of Passion: Relationship Between Social Alienation and Obsessive Passion
A1 Muelas Lobato, Roberto
A1 García Coll, Josep
A1 Moyano, Manuel
K1 Social alienation
K1 Marginalization
K1 Obsessive passion
K1 Harmonious passion
K1 Political violence
K1 Psicología
K1 Psychology
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Violent radicalization continues to be a global problem. One of the main proposals for understanding radicalization and support for political violence is based on social alienation as a trigger. That is, individuals who feel alienated from society try to get out of this situation by using violence, if necessary. However, social alienation alone is not enough to explain radicalization. Therefore, we propose that social alienation interacts with other factors to foster radicalization. Particularly, we propose that obsessive passion, an internal compulsion that leads a person to engage in an activity even when they should not, is one of the interacting factors. Following previous literature, we hypothesized that higher social alienation predicts support for political violence to a greater extent the higher the obsessive passion. To test this hypothesis, we performed two studies in which the cause of passion varied (religion: N = 652 and family: N = 873). Both studies assessed social alienation, harmonious and obsessive passion, and support for political violence. The results showed a significant increase in the effect of social alienation on support for political violence when obsessive passion was higher, even controlling by harmonious passion. These results highlight the importance of considering other variables related to social alienation that could facilitate radicalization processes, particularly maintaining an obsessive passion for a cause when one feels a social disconnection. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed given their contributions to prevention based on work on feelings of social disconnection and harmonization of causes.
PB Sage Journals
SN 0886-2605
YR 2022
FD 2022-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8458
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8458
LA eng
NO The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Centro Mixto UGR-MADOC under Grant 18/16 CEMIX UGR-MADOC and by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ under Grant PID2020-116646RB-I00.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 09-may-2024