“…Current evidence indicates that anomie is directly related to social unrest or social discontent [ 15 , 21 , 22 ], violent extremism [ 23 ], inequality [ 15 , 24 , 25 , 26 ], moral polarization [ 27 ], social control [ 28 ] and control in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic [ 29 ], greed [ 30 ], as well as higher divorce rates [ 31 ]. At the political level, it was found that the greater the deregulation (a dimension of anomie), the greater the support for proposals pertaining to protectionism and economic redistribution [ 32 ] as well as to prosocial behaviors [ 29 ], and greater support for extreme positions on the right and left [ 32 ].…”