Pre-election Study on Nostalgia: US Sample (N = 796, 2024)

Survey data were collected just before the 2020 American presidential elections. The final sample consisted of 796 Americans aged 18 or older from across various states.<br><br>To measure general nostalgia levels, we used the 7-item Southampton Nostalgia Scale (SNS; Routledge et al., 2008). Corresponding variables are labeled SNS1 to SNS7.<br><br>To measure restorative and reflective nostalgia, we used an altered version of the Index of Nostalgia Proneness (INP; Holak et al., 2006) in a shortened 14-item version (Prusik, 2011). This version assesses restorative (ResN) and reflective (RefN) types of nostalgia (Prusik, 2011; Lewicka &amp; Prusik, 2023). Corresponding variables have the prefix "INP."<br><br>Participants were also asked to evaluate their willingness to vote for the two presidential candidates. For example, they were asked, "If there had been an election today, how much would you be willing to vote for Kamala Harris?" Responses were recorded on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (extremely unlikely) to 7 (extremely likely), with 4 as the midpoint (neither likely nor unlikely). The corresponding variables are voting_KH and voting_DT.<br><br>Additionally, we collected typical sociodemographic variables (e.g., age, education, locality, standard of living), as well as political orientation and additional measures related to sociopolitical attitudes.