Immo Fritsche — Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory

11 published claims from this book.

• Belief in collective efficacy can convert threatened control into personal climate action.
• Collective efficacy belief can convert group identity into personal pro-environmental action.
• Group identification and exaggerated collective agency are two distinct strategies for restoring control.
• Group identification can function to restore a threatened sense of control.
• Group-based control is a motive distinct from resource acquisition or self-esteem striving.
• Group-based control uses self-representative in-groups, unlike out-group support or compensation.
• Identification-driven well-being depends on felt agency and control, not perceived status or self-esteem.
• In-group identification boosts well-being through gains in perceived control, not self-esteem.
• Mortality threats drive group identification through perceived loss of control, not symbolic immortality.
• People restore threatened control by escalating from personal to group-based to compensatory strategies.
• Uncertainty reduction and control restoration are independent motives for group identification