EIMECA: A Proposal for a Model of Environmental Collective Action

Beatriz Carmona-Moya, Antonia Calvo-Salguero and María-del-Carmen Aguilar-Luzón
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Beatriz Carmona-Moya: Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Antonia Calvo-Salguero: Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
María-del-Carmen Aguilar-Luzón: Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-22

Abstract: The deterioration and destruction of the environment is becoming more and more considerable and greater efforts are needed to stop it. To accomplish this feat, all members of society must identify with solving environmental problems, environmental collective action being one of the most relevant means of doing so. From this perspective, the analysis of the psychosocial factors that lead to participation in environmental collective action emerges as a priority objective in the research agenda. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the role of “environmental identity”, as conceptualized by Clayton, as a central axis for explaining environmental collective action. The inclusion of the latter in the theoretical framework of the SIMCA (social identity model of collective action) model gives rise to the model that we have called EIMECA (environmental identity model of environmental collective action). Two studies were conducted (344 and 720 participants, respectively), and structural equation modeling was used. The results reveal that environmental identity and a variety of negative emotional affects, as well as group efficacy, accompanied by hope for a simultaneous additive effect, are critical when it comes to predicting environmental collective action.

Keywords: environmental identity; environmental collective action; emotions; moral conviction; group efficacy beliefs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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