Anti anti? Non-solidarity attitudes in Europe in times of crisis

The presentation will analyse anti-solidarity attitudes in European countries. While the vast majority of solidarity research tries to explain the support for solidarity and under which circumstances people are willing to redistribute resources or identify with others to overcome a common threat, the other side of the coin is less explored. Particularly, who is not supporting solidarity and to what extent can we identify a shared socio-demographic characteristic as well as a stable anti-solidarity mindset across various crises scenarios? In order to answer these questions, we rely on the EUI-YouGov Solidarity survey and analyse all six items who refer to the crisis-solidarity nexus from 2020 to 2022. Attitudes that are anti-solidary are identified by computing tetrachoric correlations and a corresponding factor analysis. Preliminary results show that the crisis items strongly correlate with each other and that they can be reduced to one factor. Sociodemographic variables show that female respondents as well as middle-aged groups are less supportive in times of crisis while having a pro-European identity as well as an optimistic view on the EUs future indicates higher support in times of crisis. Furthermore, country differences also shape anti-solidary attitudes. Our contribution highlights the relevance of explaining the flipside of solidarity and that in order to fully explain solidarity in Europe, we have to consider the relevance of an anti-solidarity mindset.