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This research investigates how social identity threat influences affective polarisation and its relationship with well-being.

Political Social Identity Threat Predicts Increases in Affective Polarisation Over Time, but Not Changes in Well‐Being

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This research investigates how social identity threat influences affective polarisation and its relationship with well-being.
Conducted a six-wave longitudinal survey of 470 American liberals and conservatives.
Utilized random intercept cross-lagged panel models to analyze relationships over time.
Assessed the impacts on affective polarisation, perceived stress, and self-rated health.
Higher identity threat predicted increases in affective polarisation (β = 0.09, p = 0.025).
No direct effects of identity threat on perceived stress or self-rated health were found.
Identity threat was correlated with stress (r = 0.25, p < 0.001) and negatively correlated with health (r = -0.17, p = 0.002).

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Longitudinal survey demonstrates that political identity threat increases affective polarisation, suggesting significant social implications.

McMurtrie et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Longitudinal survey demonstrates that political identity threat increases affective polarisation, suggesting significant social implications.