Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Department of Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Scand J Psychol. 2024 Dec;65(6):1123-1131. doi: 10.1111/sjop.13059. Epub 2024 Jul 21.
The European Union (EU) is portrayed as a "normative power" that promotes democracy. How does identifying with the EU identity predict citizens' responses to a war between two non-EU countries, where one (Ukraine) appears as the victim (i.e., a nation suffering significant harm as a result of military aggression by another country) and the other (Russia) as the aggressor (i.e., a nation initiating military aggression against another country)? This study tested two contrasting, yet not mutually exclusive hypotheses. Based on the underlying idea that Ukraine is perceived to share similar (European) values while Russia is perceived to deviate from these values, the "humanitarian influence of the EU identity hypothesis" hypothesized that identification with the EU identity predicts increased support for the victim group (Ukraine) and condemnation of the aggressor group over time. Based on the "protective effect of EU identity hypothesis," however, a reverse temporal order was also hypothesized. We conducted a two two-wave study among Greek participants. Our findings provided full support for the first hypothesis and partial support for the second hypothesis. Identification with EU identity predicts increasingly stronger opposition to an intergroup conflict between non-EU countries.
欧盟（EU）被描绘为一个促进民主的“规范力量”。认同欧盟身份如何预测公民对两个非欧盟国家之间战争的反应，其中一个（乌克兰）是受害者（即一个国家因另一个国家的军事侵略而遭受重大伤害），另一个（俄罗斯）是侵略者（即一个国家对另一个国家发动军事侵略）？本研究检验了两个相互矛盾但不相互排斥的假设。基于乌克兰被认为具有相似（欧洲）价值观而俄罗斯被认为偏离这些价值观的基本理念，“欧盟身份认同的人道主义影响假设”假设，随着时间的推移，对欧盟身份的认同预测对受害群体（乌克兰）的支持增加，并对侵略者群体的谴责增加。然而，根据“欧盟身份保护效应假设”，也假设了相反的时间顺序。我们在希腊参与者中进行了两项两项波研究。我们的研究结果完全支持第一个假设，部分支持第二个假设。认同欧盟身份预测对非欧盟国家之间的群体间冲突的反对越来越强烈。
