Life events and change in support for political violence in the United States: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A nationally representative longitudinal survey in the USA found a decrease in population-level support for political violence from 2022 to 2023. This individual-level analysis of those data examines associations between the occurrence of 18 specified life events and subsequent change in views on political violence.

Methods

Participants in the Life in America Survey were members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel. Wave 2 of the survey was fielded online May 18-June 8, 2023; all respondents to 2022's Wave 1 who remained in KnowledgePanel were invited to participate. We calculated individual scores for 2022 and 2023 on 35 political violence measures from the first component of an ordinal principal components analysis and computed the difference in scores for individual res

SUBMITTER: Wintemute GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853587 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature