Thomas Emma F, McGarty Craig, Mavor Kenneth I
Australian National University, Canberra.
Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2009 Aug;13(3):194-218. doi: 10.1177/1088868309341563. Epub 2009 Jul 21.
In this article the authors explore the social psychological processes underpinning sustainable commitment to a social or political cause. Drawing on recent developments in the collective action, identity formation, and social norm literatures, they advance a new model to understand sustainable commitment to action. The normative alignment model suggests that one solution to promoting ongoing commitment to collective action lies in crafting a social identity with a relevant pattern of norms for emotion, efficacy, and action. Rather than viewing group emotion, collective efficacy, and action as group products, the authors conceptualize norms about these as contributing to a dynamic system of meaning, which can shape ongoing commitment to a cause. By exploring emotion, efficacy, and action as group norms, it allows scholars to reenergize the theoretical connections between collective identification and subjective meaning but also allows for a fresh perspective on complex questions of causality.
在本文中，作者探讨了支撑对社会或政治事业可持续承诺的社会心理过程。借鉴集体行动、身份形成和社会规范文献中的最新进展，他们提出了一个新模型来理解对行动的可持续承诺。规范一致性模型表明，促进对集体行动持续承诺的一个解决方案在于塑造一种具有与情感、效能和行动相关规范模式的社会身份。作者没有将群体情感、集体效能和行动视为群体产物，而是将关于这些方面的规范概念化为有助于形成一个动态意义系统，这个系统可以塑造对一项事业的持续承诺。通过将情感、效能和行动作为群体规范来探讨，这使学者们能够重新激发集体认同与主观意义之间的理论联系，同时也为因果关系的复杂问题提供了一个全新的视角。
