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To address this gap, we introduced and tested the Threat\u2010Engagement Ideological Shift Model (THEISM), which proposes that engagement determines whether threats are processed reactively\u2014through a dominant security or welfare lens, yielding univalent emotions and rigid attitudes, or integratively, through multiple lenses producing conflicting multivalent emotions and flexible attitudes. Across four studies (\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u200974,443) examining responses to the COVID\u201019 pandemic, results revealed that the pandemic was directly linked with liberal attitudes, with stronger effects among highly (vs. less) engaged individuals. At the same time, across both groups, perceived threat predicted both fear and empathy, leading to co\u2010occurring conservative and liberal attitudes, respectively, reflecting integrative processing and shared pandemic responses. However, empathy\u2010mediated liberal attitudes were stronger among highly engaged individuals, whereas fear\u2010mediated conservative attitudes remained stable across groups, revealing engagement\u2010based (a)symmetries. Overall, political engagement primarily strengthened the direct threat\u2013liberalism pathway, with emotional pathways playing a more modest but theoretically meaningful role. The findings highlight how engagement conditions the translation of threats into emotional and ideological outcomes, helping clarify conditions under which threats produce shared or polarized attitudes.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/bjso.70101","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,7]],"date-time":"2026-07-07T05:09:42Z","timestamp":1783400982000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Did politically engaged individuals construe the COVID\u201019 pandemic primarily as a security threat, a welfare threat, or both? 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