Hanna Bäck
Professor
Why Engage in Collective Action? The Conditional Effect of Social Support and Efficacy on Protest Participation
Författare
Summary, in English
Why do people engage in collective actions, such as demonstrations? We suggest that intentions to engage in protest activities come from the perception that the action is an efficient way to affect policy but is also dependent upon the level of others’ engagement. Specifically, lower support should spur intentions to engage if the individual believes that the collective act is an efficient means to bring about social change. In two experiments, manipulating social support, efficacy increased intentions to participate in collective actions but mainly for participants with low social support (Experiments 1 and 2). In Experiment 3, manipulating efficacy, high social support was related to decreased intentions to engage. However, in this study, social support did not interact with efficacy.
Avdelning/ar
- Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
Publiceringsår
2018-01-02
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
49-59
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
Volym
40
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0197-3533