Solidaritybased collective action SOLIDARITY AS AN OUTGROUP ORIENTED

Solidarity-based collective action SOLIDARITY AS AN OUT-GROUP ORIENTED IDENTIFICATION COMPONENT

SOLIDARITY Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 2

COLLECTIVE ACTION - whenever people take action to improve their group‘s condition (Wright, Taylor, & Moghaddam, 1990) - can be expanded to action aimed at improving any group‘s situation („solidarity-based collective action“) Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 3

SOCIAL IDENTITY BASED MODEL OF COLLECTIVE ACTION SIMCA (van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2008) variables: 1. in-group identification 2. moral outrage / anger 3. collective efficacy Can such a model be easily applied to solidarity-based collective action? substitute for in-group identification needed Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 4

SUBSTITUTES FOR IN-GROUP IDENTIFICATION - superordinate / shared identity (Beaton & Deveau, 2005; Mc. Farland, 2011) - social identity based on shared opinion (Bliuc, Mc. Garty, Reynolds, & Muntele. 2007) - politicized social identity (Simon & Klandermans, 2001) Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 5

SOLIDARITY AS A COMPONENT OF IDENTIFICATION - ongoing discussion if identification is best understood as multidimensional - integrative multidimensional approach (Leach et al. , 2008) discusses five components, one of them solidarity - solidarity component specifically based on psychological bond with a group – not necessarily the in-group - useful alternative within the SIMCA model? Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 6

STUDY I - N = 102 (57. 8% female) - Mage = 26. 41 (SD = 9. 05) measures - anger (α =. 87) - collective efficacy (α =. 91) - solidarity (α =. 81) - self definition (α =. 74) - SISI (Postmes, Haslam, & Jans, 2013) - collective action intentions (α =. 92) - threatened out-group: Orang Utans Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 7

STUDY I Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 8

STUDY II - N = 168 (60. 6 % female) - Mage = 36. 96 (SD = 15. 05) measures - global identification - opinion based group id (α =. 94) - solidarity with refugees (α =. 88) - anger (α =. 94) - collective efficacy (α =. 95) - collective action intentions (α =. 94) Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 9

STUDY II predictor B b p opinion based ID . 362 . 286 . 000 anger . 118 . 112 . 012 collective efficacy . 321 . 269 . 000 solidarity . 336 . 304 . 000 global identification . 026 . 029 . 527 R² =. 677 Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 10

STUDY II anger. 20 global ID . 11* solidarity . 37* - . 34* efficacy . 12* intentions . 32* controlled for opinion-based group ID; total indirect effect =. 079, Boot. SE =. 031, 95%CI [. 027; . 147] Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 11

SUMMARY - solidarity as an identification component is an independent predictor of solidarity-based collective action - extends to other species - utility of multidimensional approach - multiple approaches to facilitate solidarity need to be investigated Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 12

SOURCES OF SOLIDARITY - global identification strengthening of perceptions of similarities / superordinate group - absolute moral standards (perception of a set of moral principles as universal) - empathy / perspective taking Abteilung Sozialpsychologie 13

OPEN QUESTIONS - does solidarity with an out-group still qualify as identification? - theoretical relationship with other identification concepts solidarity opinion based id Abteilung Sozialpsychologie opinion based ID collective action solidarity collective action 14

THANK YOU! Collaborators: Elisa Hüller Charlotte Kreklau Tamás Herbst