Network loss following the 2016 Presidential Election among LGBTQ+ adults.
Network loss following the 2016 Presidential Election among LGBTQ+ adults.
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2016 年总统选举后 LGBTQ 成年人的网络损失。
DOI：
10.1007/s41109-022-00474-y
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
McKay,Tara
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作者：
Facciani,Matthew;McKay,Tara
美国日益严重的政治两极分化与美国成年人个人网络中的政治同质性有关。2016年美国总统选举是一个两极分化的事件，可能导致与不同政治派别的改革者进一步失去联系。亲属关系可能会防止失去政治上不同的关系。此外，在LGBTQ+人群中，与不同政治观点的人失去联系可能尤其明显，因为与他们的异性恋同行相比，他们更有可能受到公共政策决定的影响。我们分析了加州大学伯克利分校社交网络研究(UCNets)在2015年和2017年发生的两波老年人LGBTQ+过抽样，这为评估2016年总统选举后的变化损失提供了机会。当评估所有成年人时，我们发现政治上不同的变化更有可能反映出亲属关系，而不是伴侣或朋友关系。我们还发现，政治上不同的亲属不太可能被抛弃，这表明亲属关系在不同政治观点对Alter Lost的影响中起到了调节作用。LGBTQ+的受访者比他们的顺性异性恋者更有可能放弃具有不同政治观点的亲属改变。我们讨论了这些结果对政治两极分化干预的影响，以及政治可能对LGBTQ+个人产生的社会网络影响。
Growing levels of political polarization in the United States have been associated with political homogeneity in the personal networks of American adults. The 2016 Presidential Election in the United States was a polarizing event that may have caused further loss of connections to alters who had different politics. Kinship may protect against loss of politically different ties. Additionally, loss of ties with different political views may be particularly pronounced among LGBTQ+ people as they are more likely to be impacted by public policy decisions compared to their heterosexual counterparts. We analyzed two waves of the University of California, Berkeley Social Networks Study's (UCNets) Main Sample and LGBTQ+ Oversample of older adults that occurred in 2015 and 2017, which provided an opportunity to assess alter loss after the 2016 Presidential Election. When evaluating all adults, we found that politically different alters were more likely to reflect kin ties than partner or friend ties. We also found that politically different kin are less likely to be dropped suggesting that kinship acts as a moderating effect of different political views on alter loss. LGBTQ+ respondents were more likely to drop kin alters with different political views than their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. We discuss the implications these results have for political polarization interventions as well as the social networks impact politics can have on LGBTQ+ individuals.