Endurance or decline of emergent groups following a flood disaster: Implications for community resilience

Ntontis, Evangelos; Drury, John; Amlôt, Richard; Rubin, G. James; Williams, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101493

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“…But it would seem that some of the factors that can help include a group identity, a place to meet and talk about the group and its aims, commemorative events, support (but not co-option) from local authorities and alliances with other groups. 5,79 Conclusions and recommendations There are many reasons why it is important to understand the role of group processes in the COVID-19 pandemic, but we will focus here on two of the most important ones. The first reason is that, without a proper understanding of group processes, practitioners and policy makers might instead make decisions by drawing upon 'folk psychologies'.…”

Section: Neighbourhood Support and Community Mutual Aid Groupsmentioning

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Public behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the role of group processes

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Background In the absence of a vaccine, behaviour by the public is key to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, as with other types of crises and emergencies, there have been doubts about the extent to which the public are able to engage effectively with the required behaviour. These doubts are based on outdated models of group psychology. Aims and argument We analyse the role of group processes in the COVID-19 pandemic in three domains: recognition of threat, adherence by the public to the required public health behaviours (and the factors that increase such adherence) and actions of the many community mutual aid groups that arose during lockdown. In each case, we draw upon the accumulated research on behaviour in emergencies and disasters, as well as the latest findings in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, to show that explanations in terms of social identity processes make better sense of the patterns of evidence than alternative explanations. Conclusions If behaviour in the pandemic is a function of mutable group processes rather than fixed tendencies, then behavioural change is possible. There was evidence of significant change in behaviour from the public, particularly in the early days of the pandemic. Understanding the role of group processes means we can help design more effective interventions to support collective resilience in the public in the face of the pandemic and other threats. We draw out from the evidence a set of recommendations on facilitating the public response to COVID-19 by harnessing group processes.

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Section: Neighbourhood Support and Community Mutual Aid Groupsmentioning

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Public behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the role of group processes

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“…The feeling of all being 'in the same boat' gives rise to a sense of common identity, which motivates and makes possible mutual support during the crisis. Under certain conditions, the common identity is maintained over time and facilitates long-term solidarity (Drury & Reicher, 2000;Ntontis, Drury, Amlôt, Rubin, & Williams, 2020).…”

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Collective resilience in times of crisis: Lessons from the literature for socially effective responses to the pandemic

Elcheroth

Drury

2020

British J Social Psychol

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Most countries worldwide have taken restrictive measures and called on their population to adopt social distancing behaviours to contain the spread of the COVID‐19 pandemic. At a time when several European countries are releasing their lockdown measures, new uncertainties arise regarding the further evolution of a crisis becoming multifaceted, as well as the durability of public determination to face and contain it. In this context, the sustained social efficacy of public health measures will depend more than ever on the level of acceptance across populations called on to temporarily sacrifice daily freedoms, while economic insecurity grows and social inequalities become more blatant. We seek to develop a framework for analysing how the requirements of ‘social distancing’ can be reconciled with the conditions that allow for the maintaining, or even strengthening, of social cohesion, mutual solidarity, and a sense of collective efficacy, throughout the crisis. To reach this goal, we propose a summary of relevant findings and pragmatic policy principles derived from them.

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“…To our knowledge, there are very few relevant studies which explore the continuation of groups following stress. For example, one which studies emergent groups (Ntontis, Drury, Amlôt, Rubin, & Williams, 2020) and one which focuses on civil society within a region (Forrest, Trell, & Woltjer, 2018). However, even these relevant studies focus on the community level.…”

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Were we stressed or was it just me – and does it even matter? Efforts to disentangle individual and collective resilience within real and imagined stressors

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Blessin

Erfurth

2021

British J Social Psychol

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Endurance or decline of emergent groups following a flood disaster: Implications for community resilience

Cited by 70 publications

References 49 publications

Public behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the role of group processes

Public behaviour in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the role of group processes

Collective resilience in times of crisis: Lessons from the literature for socially effective responses to the pandemic

Were we stressed or was it just me – and does it even matter? Efforts to disentangle individual and collective resilience within real and imagined stressors

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