Fousiani Kyriaki, Van Prooijen Jan-Willem
Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Int J Psychol. 2023 Dec;58(6):563-573. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12932. Epub 2023 Aug 1.
The European Union (EU) legislation suggests that EU member states progressively adopt and implement policies that are primarily in line with the broader European interests, and secondarily with specific national interests. Yet, citizens from various EU member-states often oppose these EU directives and adopt attitudes that favour national interests. The current study investigates whether EU citizens progressively comply with-or digress from-the directives of the superordinate EU group during the Russia-Ukraine war. In a two-wave study we investigated the role of instrumental reasons (i.e., maximisation of material gain) to cooperate with an EU outgroup, namely Russia, in Greeks' (an EU member state) compliance with the EU directives over time during the Russia-Ukraine war. We hypothesised and found that instrumental reasons to cooperate with Russia: (a) encourage EU citizens to support digressing from EU directives and (b) predict decreased identification with the superordinate identity of EU over time. Moreover, since NATO's approach to the Russian invasion closely mirrors that of the EU, we further investigated the effects of instrumental reasons to cooperate with Russia on Greeks' identification with a different superordinate group, namely NATO. Results were largely similar to those we obtained when focusing on EU as a superordinate group.
欧盟立法建议，欧盟成员国应逐步采纳并实施主要符合更广泛欧洲利益、其次符合特定国家利益的政策。然而，来自不同欧盟成员国的公民常常反对这些欧盟指令，并采取有利于国家利益的态度。当前的研究调查了在俄乌战争期间，欧盟公民是否会逐渐遵守或背离上级欧盟集团的指令。在一项两阶段研究中，我们调查了工具性原因（即物质利益最大化）在希腊人（一个欧盟成员国）随着时间推移遵守欧盟指令过程中，与欧盟外部群体俄罗斯合作所起的作用。我们进行了假设并发现，与俄罗斯合作的工具性原因：（a）鼓励欧盟公民支持背离欧盟指令；（b）预测随着时间推移，对欧盟上级身份的认同会下降。此外，由于北约对俄罗斯入侵的态度与欧盟极为相似，我们进一步调查了与俄罗斯合作的工具性原因对希腊人对另一个上级群体——北约的认同的影响。结果与我们将欧盟视为上级群体时所得到的结果大致相似。
