The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2023 Jul;49(7):1086-1096. doi: 10.1177/01461672221092853. Epub 2022 May 13.
Psychological processes that hamper activism, such as activist burnout, threaten social change. We suggest that perceived emotional fit (i.e., perceiving to experience similar emotions as other disadvantaged group members) may buffer activist burnout by mitigating the deleterious effects of stressors that are associated with partaking in collective action. We investigated the relation between perceived emotional fit and activist burnout using three-wave longitudinal survey data of Palestinians in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. We hypothesized that both higher general tendencies to fit emotionally with the ingroup (general perceived emotional fit) and increases over time in perceived emotional fit (change perceived emotional fit) would relate negatively to activist burnout. Supporting our hypotheses, both aspects of emotional fit were associated with lower activist burnout, even when controlling for classical predictors of collective action. This research highlights perceived emotional fit as an additional dimension to the role of emotions for sustainable collective action.
阻碍行动主义的心理过程，如行动主义者倦怠，威胁着社会变革。我们认为，感知到的情感契合（即，感知到与其他弱势群体成员体验相似的情感）可以通过减轻与参与集体行动相关的压力源的有害影响来缓冲行动主义者倦怠。我们使用巴勒斯坦人在巴以冲突背景下的三波纵向调查数据，调查了感知到的情感契合与行动主义者倦怠之间的关系。我们假设，与群体情感契合的一般倾向（普遍感知到的情感契合）以及随着时间的推移感知到的情感契合的增加（变化感知到的情感契合）都会与行动主义者倦怠呈负相关。支持我们的假设，情感契合的两个方面都与较低的行动主义者倦怠相关，即使在控制了集体行动的经典预测因素后也是如此。这项研究强调了感知到的情感契合是情绪对可持续集体行动的作用的另一个维度。
