RT Journal Article
T1 The Importance of Protesters’ Morals: Moral Obligation as a Key Variable to Understand Collective Action
A1 Sabucedo Cameselle, José Manuel
A1 Dono Martín, Marcos
A1 Alzate García, Mónica
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
K1 Activism
K1 Collective action
K1 Morals
K1 Moral obligation
K1 Moral conviction
K1 Moral norm
K1 Political participation
K1 Protest
AB Collective action and protest have become a normalized political behavior that in many  cases defines the political agenda. The reasons why people take to the streets constitute a central subject within the study of social psychology. In the literature, three precedents  of protest that have been established as central to the study of this phenomenon  are: injustice, efficacy, and identity. But political action is also deeply related to moral  values. This explains why in recent years some moral constructs have also been pointed  out as predictors of collective action. Moral variables have been introduced into the  literature with little consideration to how they relate to each other. Thus, work in this  direction is needed. The general aim of this research is to differentiate moral obligation  from moral norms and moral conviction, as well as to compare their ability to predict  collective action. In order to do so, the research objectives are: (a) conceptualize and  operationalize moral obligation (Study 1, N = 171); (b) test its predictive power for  intention to participate in protests (Study 2, N = 622); and (c) test moral obligation in  a real context (Study 3, N = 407). Results are encouraging, showing not only that moral  obligation is different to moral conviction and moral norm, but also that it is a more  effective predictor working both for intention and real participation. This work therefore presents moral obligation as a key precedent of protest participation, prompting its  future use as a variable that can enhance existing predictive models of collective action. Results regarding other variables are also discussed.
PB Frontiers Media
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20116
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20116
LA eng
NO Sabucedo J-M, Dono M, Alzate M and Seoane G (2018) The Importance of Protesters’ Morals: Moral Obligation as a Key Variable to Understand Collective Action. Front. Psychol. 9:418. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00418
NO This research was partly funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Social Fund (grants for excellence projects 2015: PSI2015-66608-P) and by the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Xunta de Galicia (grant no. ED431B 2016/017). The research was also funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Social Fund through the 2016 grants for predoctoral contracts (BDNS: 316231)
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