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A proposal for an integrated model of prosocial behavior and collective action as the expression of global citizenship
Author(s) -
Fattori Francesco,
Pozzi Maura,
Marzana Daniela,
Mannarini Terri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2154
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , psychology , social psychology , collective action , action (physics) , poverty , structural equation modeling , global citizenship , social identity theory , function (biology) , internalism and externalism , social group , epistemology , politics , political science , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , law , biology , philosophy
The processes of globalization that have characterized recent decades have prompted social psychology to rethink some everyday life concerns and local problems at a global level. This article presents an explanatory model of collective action aimed at fighting poverty with a proposal to integrate the Encapsulated Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) with some antecedents from both the psychology of volunteerism and authority relationship literature. A self‐report questionnaire was administered to 783 Italian participants, and through structural equation modeling, we demonstrated that moral reasoning, engagement values, and prosocial disobedience function as antecedents of the EMSICA model and, thus, are elements in the global fight against poverty.