People restore threatened control by escalating from personal to group-based to compensatory strategies.
Evidence
This models integrates the theories of group-based control and compensatory control (building on Stollberg, Fritsche, Barth, & Jugert, 2017). After experiencing threat to personal control, people first try to restore control through the personal self (personal primary control); when personal control seems low, they instead try to restore control through the social self (extended primary control, or group-based control). Only if this seems futile, people may aim to reestablish their sense of certainty by means of compensatory control, thereby also indirectly helping to restore their sense of personal control on a later occasion (secondary control). — Immo Fritsche, Agency Through the We, 45
Categorization
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s group-based control question: this staged model places group-based control as an escalation between personal primary control and secondary/compensatory control, giving a precise falsifiable sequencing against which the ‘hollowed-out negational identity restores control’ hypothesis can be tested. — connects to: Group identification and exaggerated collective agency are two distinct strategies for restoring control. — Immo Fritsche, Agency Through the We: Group-Based…, 23; Group identification can function to restore a threatened sense of control. — Immo Fritsche, Agency Through the We: Group-Based…, 42; Ingroup defense functions as a compensatory control mechanism when personal control is lost. — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 24 (+1 more)
- DEFINE: Clarifies the three-stage architecture distinguishing personal primary, extended primary (group-based), and secondary (compensatory) control.
Broader Connections
- Group identification can function to restore a threatened sense of control.
#expands(0.90) — Immo Fritsche, Agency Through the We, 42 - Ingroup defense functions as a compensatory control mechanism when personal control is lost.
#expands(0.85) — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending ingroups, 24 - Belief in collective efficacy can convert threatened control into personal climate action.
#qualifies(0.75) — Immo Fritsche, Agency Through the We, 47