Expecting support from fellow survivors enables coordinated collective action.

Evidence

The most important of these was expected support which was argued to be a ‘hinge’ for a number of resilient outcomes (Drury, 2018). We carried out a test of the extended model through a questionnaire survey of survivors’ responses to the 2010 Maule earthquake in Chile, using a large representative sample (Drury et al., 2016). This study found evidence for the predicted pivotal role of expected support. This mediated between shared identity (with other survivors) on the one hand and, on the other, group efficacy and participation in coordinated support. A crucial point here is that not only is expected support from others in the group a known predictor of well-being outcome measures in the disaster recovery period (Norris & Kaniasty, 1996), but it also enables survivors to act as one: they feel they will be backed up if they take action for fellow group members, and they can anticipate others’ actions and coordinate with them (Drury, 2018). — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 22

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘backed up if they act’ logic parallels trust/reciprocity mechanisms in the law-merchant and social-capital literature also in the reading library. — connects to: Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 72; Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 99; Collective coordination and efficacy depend on others’ co-action, unlike one-to-one support. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 114 (+7 more)

Related

• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.88)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.88)
• Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help (similarity 0.88)
• Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. (similarity 0.88)
• Collective coordination and efficacy depend on others’ co-action, unlike one-to-one support. (similarity 0.88)
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support (similarity 0.88)
• Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification (similarity 0.87)
• People act together because shared identity lets each expect others will join (similarity 0.87)
• Collective resilience theory now yields practical guidance for disaster practitioners. (similarity 0.86)
• Watching others give help makes disaster survivors give help themselves via expected reciprocity. (similarity 0.86)
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. (similarity 0.86)
• Flood survivors’ shared identity predicts their well-being through expected support months later (similarity 0.85)
• Disaster responders shape survivors’ help-giving through the example they set. (similarity 0.85)
• Emergency responders should deliberately cultivate shared identity with survivors. (similarity 0.84)
• Shared identity can be an outcome of mutual aid, not only its cause (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Coordinated collective action requires others’ co-action, not just identification #qualifies (0.85) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 113
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support #expands (0.82) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 73
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters #expands (0.80) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 15
• Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. #expands (0.72) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 14