%0 Journal Article
%T Expansion of the self of activists and nonactivists involved in mass gatherings for collective action
%A Anna Maria Zawadzka
%A Tomasz Besta
%J Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
%@ 1461-7188
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1368430217735903
%X Three studies were carried out in natural settings of mass gatherings to examine the interplay between activist identity and self-expansion and their relationship with willingness to engage in future collective actions. Study 1 was conducted among activists and supporters of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals; Study 2 involved participants in a nationwide charity event; and Study 3 included members of a religious group. The results showed a statistically significant positive relationship between self-perceived activist identity and collective action (CA) tendency (Studies 1, 2, and 3). Moreover, the interaction between activist identity and self-expansion plays a role in predicting CA, with self-expansion related to willingness to engage in progroup behaviors when activist identity is low but not when activist identity is high (Studies 2 and 3). This interaction statistically significantly predicted collective action tendency when nonmaterialistic relational self-expansion and nonrelational self-expansion were considered but not when materialistic self-expansion was tested (Study 3)
%K activism
%K collective action
%K group processes
%K self-expansion
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368430217735903