Protected by the Emotions of the Group: Perceived Emotional Fit and Disadvantaged Group Members’ Activist Burnout

Vandermeulen, Daan; Aslih, Siwar Hasan; Shuman, Eric; Halperin, Eran

doi:10.1177/01461672221092853

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“…We consistently found social identification to be associated with less burnout, and more positive/ less negative affect. This is in line with findings of a recent study by Vandermeulen et al (2022), who longitudinally investigated activist burnout in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As social identification was rendered non-significant when psychological needs were included, these may mediate the effect of identification on CAH.…”

Section: Psychological Factorssupporting

confidence: 91%

“…We therefore question Gorski et al's (2019) suggestion that friendships in the movement increase the likelihood of burnout. Consistent with Vandermeulen et al (2022) and Chen and Gorski (2015), affective injustice was associated with more burnout, more negative affect, and less life satisfaction in Study 2. Interestingly, Study 2 also showed that affective injustice predicted subjective vitality, indicating that it is a vitalizing affect that may be better than mere anxiety, but comes with a number of stressful downsides.…”

Section: Psychological Factorssupporting

confidence: 58%

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Investigating the predictors of collective action intensity and health

Hamann,

von Agris,

Markus

2023

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As the climate crisis becomes more tangible, collective action on environmental issues is both increasing and urgently needed. Psychological research has begun to investigate the antecedents of collective action but has typically neglected the individuals who devote much time to one specific action. Moreover, we know little about what makes this collective action resilient. We address these gaps by investigating the predictors of collective action intensity (CAI) and collective action health (CAH) in two studies (N = 441, N = 486). Both studies found that integrated volunteer motivation explains CAI over and above commonly used predictors of the SIMCA. In Study 2, participative efficacy and descriptive norms positively predicted CAI, whereas moral convictions emerged as negative predictor. We also discovered that social identification and self-efficacy can buffer activist burnout as an indicator of CAH. We discuss how environmental psychology can develop a more comprehensive perspective on resilient collective action.

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Section: Psychological Factorssupporting

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Section: Psychological Factorssupporting

confidence: 58%

Investigating the predictors of collective action intensity and health

Hamann,

von Agris,

Markus

2023

Preprint

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“…A recent metatheoretical review of social psychological studies on the Israeli-Palestinian political context (Hakim et al, 2023) suggests that research has been conducted primarily among Israeli Jews. Studies of Palestinians are rare, especially those that adopt a distinctly Palestinian perspective (see Albzour et al, 2023;Albzour, Penic, et al, 2019;Hasan-Aslih et al, 2019, 2020Vandermeulen et al, 2022) as opposed to adding a Palestinian sample to replicate findings from Jewish Israelis or studying Palestinians as a comparison group. Hakim et al (2023) further note that a majority of this research stops short of characterizing the context as one of military occupation.…”

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confidence: 99%

The geography of military occupation and its effect on Palestinian community cohesion, norms, and resistance motivation.

Penić¹,

Vollhardt²,

Donnay³

et al. 2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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In the context of military occupation, surveillance is a commonly used tactic to decrease resistance, effectively undermining an oppressed group's sense of solidarity and cohesion. Our study examines how community cohesion-ties to local community-shapes the willingness to engage in nonviolent, civil resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). We examine the psychological processes underpinning the link between community cohesion and civil resistance, and how these processes are affected by the geography of military occupation-the spatial system of Israeli settlements and surveillance infrastructure (checkpoints, the separation barrier, military installations). We address these questions by combining a representative survey of the adult population (N = 1,000) from 49 communities across the West Bank and Jerusalem with geo-coded data of settlements and the surveillance infrastructure. Our findings show that community cohesion predicts increased willingness to resist directly, and indirectly via perceived community norms of solidarity. Additionally, living in communities closer to settlements or the surveillance infrastructure predicts decreased community cohesion, lower expectations of solidarity with resistance, and less willingness to engage in resistance. Our findings contribute to the literature by demonstrating the role of community cohesion and norms in motivating resistance and depicting how these psychological processes are undermined by the structural conditions of control exercised by military occupation. Public Significance StatementThis article examines how living in the proximity of the built environment of Israeli military occupation, such as checkpoints, the separation barrier and Israeli settlements, shapes community cohesion and civil resistance motivation among Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We find that community cohesion and perceived community norms of solidarity are related to increased willingness to engage in civil resistance, but that these social-psychological resources for resistance are undermined when living near the built environment of military occupation. Our findings suggest that these structures, built in the name of security, may instead pave the way for violence by undermining cohesion and capacity for nonviolent forms of action among Palestinian communities.

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“…Furthermore, knowing that feelings of being moved are prevalent experiences of activists may be relevant for coaching. When activists perceive their emotions as shared with others this prevents activist burnout (Vandermeulen et al, 2023). Thus, sharing their moving experiences may help activists to cope with stressful situations.…”

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Being positively moved by climate protest predicts peaceful collective action

Landmann,

Naumann

2024

Glob. Environ. Psychol.

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People can be motivated to engage in collective action for climate protection because they are angry about an injustice or because they are emotionally moved by the idea that they can achieve something together. However, previous research on emotions and collective action has not distinguished between being positively and being negatively moved and between normative and non-normative collective action. To address this gap, we conducted a field study in Germany with activists and non-activists of Fridays for Future (N = 223). Participants reported their appraisals, feelings and intentions related to the climate crisis and the Fridays for Future protests. Being positively moved predicted intentions to engage in normative collective action (signing petitions, participating in demonstrations) but not intentions to participate in non-normative collective action (involving damage to property or risk of personal injury). Being negatively moved did not significantly predict either of these collective action intentions. This suggests that the motivational effect of being moved on collective action is specific to being positively moved and to normative collective action. Acceptance of non-normative collective action was predicted by perceptions of injustice and low collective efficacy beliefs. Thus, non-normative collective action for climate protection seems to be considered when peaceful protest is perceived as ineffective.

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Protected by the Emotions of the Group: Perceived Emotional Fit and Disadvantaged Group Members’ Activist Burnout

Cited by 10 publications

References 62 publications

Investigating the predictors of collective action intensity and health

Investigating the predictors of collective action intensity and health

The geography of military occupation and its effect on Palestinian community cohesion, norms, and resistance motivation.

Being positively moved by climate protest predicts peaceful collective action

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