What is political incivility?

Stryker, Robin; Conway, Bethany Anne; Danielson, John Taylor

doi:10.1080/03637751.2016.1201207

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“…One survey ("In This Election Year", 2008) found that 65% of employees reported hearing their coworkers discuss politics, and 35% reported hearing their supervisors talk about politics. This can become problematic because political discussions often become heated (Johnson & Johnson, 2000) and rife with political incivility, which refers to behaviors that are not just rude and discourteous but also disrupt discussion of political issues (Stryker, Conway, & Danielson, 2016). Employees are exposed to political incivility not only through workplace discussions but also through media consumption, and this exposure has been associated with uncivil behavior (Gervais, 2014).…”

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Political identity dissimilarity, workplace incivility, and declines in well‐being: A prospective investigation

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Walker

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Stress and Health

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The workplace is an environment where individuals have little choice about with whom they interact. As such, employees may find themselves engaged in conversations with coworkers whose political opinions and perspectives are divergent from their own. In the present study, we examined how coworkers' (dis)similarity in political identity is related to the quality of their interpersonal interactions and subsequent well‐being. We predicted that political identity dissimilarity is associated with experiences of workplace incivility and, in turn, declines in psychological and occupational well‐being. We tested our hypotheses in a four‐wave survey study conducted during the 2012 U.S. presidential election using structural equation modeling. Consistent with our expectations, results indicated that political identity dissimilarity was associated with increased reports of incivility experiences instigated by coworkers, which, in turn, was associated with increased burnout and turnover intentions and diminished job satisfaction. The relationship between incivility and well‐being was mediated by psychological distress. Overall, the findings demonstrate that political identity dissimilarity is detrimentally related to job attitudes and well‐being via triggering workplace incivility, which provides meaningful implications for organizations on how to mitigate the negative influences of identity dissimilarity.

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Section: Political Identity Dissimilarity and Incivilitymentioning

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Political identity dissimilarity, workplace incivility, and declines in well‐being: A prospective investigation

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“…While some conceptual discrepancies remain, there is also a good deal of agreement among scholars of incivility regarding certain types of behavior qualifying as uncivil (e.g., Muddiman, ; Stryker, Conway, & Danielson, ). Perhaps the most common category of political incivility—in terms of its frequency in discourse and scholarly works on incivility—is invectives and ridicule, which includes ad hominem attacks, character assassinations, mockery, name calling, and other insults (Berry & Sobieraj, ; Brooks & Geer, ; Fridkin & Kenney, ; Mutz, ; Stryker et al, ). A related category of incivility is hyperbole and distortion (or “spin”), which involves misrepresenting a target’s views or behavior with the intention of making him seem more radical, immoral, or corrupt.…”

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“…A related category of incivility is hyperbole and distortion (or “spin”), which involves misrepresenting a target’s views or behavior with the intention of making him seem more radical, immoral, or corrupt. This is done by leveraging extremizing and inflammatory words or phrases (Berry & Sobieraj, ; Gervais, ; Stryker et al, ). Incivility has also been defined and operationalized as emotion‐laden language , such as obscenity and vulgarity (Berry & Sobieraj, ; Gervais, ; Stryker et al, ), as well as negative‐emotion attribution , such as stating that a political figure is a source of national sadness, fear, or embarrassment (Berry & Sobieraj, ; Muddiman, ).…”

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Rousing the Partisan Combatant: Elite Incivility, Anger, and Antideliberative Attitudes

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2018

Political Psychology

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The claim that elite political incivility can rouse partisan, antideliberative attitudes has many adherents, but the empirical record demonstrating a relationship is surprisingly limited. Yet the extant research suggests that incivility can stimulate aversive feelings, of the sort that discrete and dimensional theories of emotion predict should induce a partisan, antideliberative mode of citizenship among those exposed. Leveraging two online experiments, I address the questions of whether elite incivility provokes anger, rather than enthusiasm and anxiety, and whether the affective reactions induced by incivility yield the changes in deliberative attitudes that theories of emotion predict. I find that elite incivility, when counterattitudinal, rouses anger, which in turn can provoke an active and combative form of partisan citizenship. Despite claims to the contrary, the link between proattitudinal incivility, anger, and antideliberative attitudes is less clear. The results provide insight into the dynamics of discourse in the digital age, when affective polarization is the norm and elites commonly employ uncivil rhetoric.

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“…In a recent study on what constitutes political incivility, Stryker et al. () found that over 82% of their respondents felt the use of slurs (racial, sexist, ethnic or religious slurs in a political discussion) as well as threatening or encouraging harm were highly politically uncivil. These types of statements and behaviours were overtly present in the political discourse of our then President‐elect Donald Trump.…”

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“…The overall objective of this work is to generate a discussion about what we currently know about Latino response to the current US political culture, juxtaposed against well-documented barriers to recruitment and retention and existing strategies for addressing these barriers. We propose that to overcome the lack of participation in health research by Latinos we must also be purposeful in how we address emerging concerns related to the current political incivility, or rather the current process of engaging in rude, insulting or threatening commentary or behaviors in political discussions or debates (Stryker, Conway, & Danielson, 2016). In this article, we submit that experiencing or witnessing political incivility, where one is a member of the group that is being targeted, is a form of discrimination and oppression.…”

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Strategies for conducting health research with Latinos during times of political incivility

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AimThe current US political climate towards immigrants introduces new challenges for researchers already struggling to recruit and retain Latino participants in health research. The purpose of this work is to illuminate how current political incivility further deters participation by Latinos in research and present strategies to overcome these challenges.Design/MethodsIn this discursive piece, we describe how political incivility serves as a proxy for discrimination, discusses the impact of political incivility on health and health outcomes and explores existing knowledge of recruitment and retention strategies in the light of a current, adversely impacted health study with Latinos during the 2016 election season.ResultsFuture work should consider the critical contextual factors (including political incivility) faced by Latinos in the US, while continuing to engage in established research strategies such as increasing trust, developing strong community presence, reducing risks (real and perceived) and being thoughtful in research design and implementation.

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What is political incivility?

Cited by 118 publications

References 28 publications

Political identity dissimilarity, workplace incivility, and declines in well‐being: A prospective investigation

Political identity dissimilarity, workplace incivility, and declines in well‐being: A prospective investigation

Rousing the Partisan Combatant: Elite Incivility, Anger, and Antideliberative Attitudes

Strategies for conducting health research with Latinos during times of political incivility

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