A study led by the University of Turku, Finland, shows people who subscribe to “woke” ideology and the cause of “social justice” are more likely than conservatives to be anxious, depressed, or both.
Researchers used the Critical Social Justice Attitudes Scale (CSJAS) to evaluate nearly 900 people based on their agreement or disagreement with certain culturally charged statements.
These included, “If white people have on average a higher level of income than black people, it is because of racism,” “University reading lists should include fewer white or European authors,” and “trans women who compete with women in sports are not helping women’s rights.”
Higher scores on CSJAS correlated with strong woke beliefs, but it turned out that, overall, a “lower level of mental well-being was mostly associated with being on the political left and not specifically with having a high CSJAS score.”
Women were found to be more susceptible to woke ideology than men. People who identified as “non-binary,” supporters of leftist political parties, and female students studying humanities, education, or social sciences were also found to be disproportionately “woke.”
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