Collective efficacy belief can convert group identity into personal pro-environmental action.

Evidence

Perhaps the automatic group-based responses to threatened personal control will also play their part when the collectives of today and tomorrow need to overcome personal helplessness in the face of unprecedented ecological crises. In fact, salient climate-change threat has been found to increase people’s belief in collective (but not personal) efficacy in fighting climate change (Hornsey et al., 2015). Another study found that students’ personal willingness to take action against climate change was increased when their perception of the younger generation’s efficacy in protecting the climate was increased (Jugert et al., 2016). The effect of collective efficacy was mediated through raising people’s belief that they could personally contribute to climate protection. Obviously, humans’ propensity to perceive control not only on the personal level but also on collective levels of the self has the potential to unfreeze individuals’ paralysis in the face of the great collective challenges of our time. — Immo Fritsche, Agency Through the We, 47

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Speaks to the constructive flip-side of group-based control — identities that bridge personal → collective agency — which parallels how grafted/tree-infrstructive systems enable action individuals can’t alone achieve.
• XREF: connects to: Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 548; A group’s shared belief in its own power predicts its persistence and achievements. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2825; Group commitment shifts members from self-interest toward collective welfare — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 914

Related

• Belief in collective efficacy can convert threatened control into personal climate action. (similarity 0.92)
• A group’s shared belief in its own power predicts its persistence and achievements. (similarity 0.82)
• Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Group commitment shifts members from self-interest toward collective welfare #corroborates (0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 914
• Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare #expands (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 548
• A group’s shared belief in its own power predicts its persistence and achievements. #expands (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2825