Life events and change in support for political violence in the United States: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey
Garen J. Wintemute, Sonia L. Robinson, Andrew Crawford, Elizabeth A. Tomsich, Mona A. Wright, Veronica A. Pear, Aaron B. Shev

TL;DR
A U.S. survey found that most people decreased their support for political violence from 2022 to 2023, with specific life events like financial improvement linked to this change.
Contribution
The study identifies specific life events associated with shifts in support for political violence, offering insights for prevention strategies.
Findings
Only 'things improved financially' was linked to decreased support for political violence.
'I gave up on politics' was associated with increased support for political violence.
Belief changes were linked to decreased support among left-wing extremists.
Abstract
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. 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 respondents from 2022 to 2023 to represent a 1-year change in these measures. Our principal outcomes are adjusted mean differences in…
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TopicsPopulism, Right-Wing Movements · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Gun Ownership and Violence Research
