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Collective Self-Determination: How the Agent of Help Promotes Pride, Well-Being, and Support for Intergroup Helping

Overview of attention for article published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, March 2017
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Title
Collective Self-Determination: How the Agent of Help Promotes Pride, Well-Being, and Support for Intergroup Helping
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, March 2017
DOI 10.1177/0146167217695553
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Emma F. Thomas, Catherine E. Amiot, Winnifred R. Louis, Alice Goddard

Abstract

This research integrates self-determination theory and the social identity approach to investigate the notion of collective (group level) self-determination, and to test how the agent of intergroup help (helping initiated by a group representative versus group members) shapes group members' motives and support for intergroup helping. Study 1 ( N = 432) demonstrates that collective self-determination predicts support for intergroup helping, group pride, and well-being, over and above individual-level self-determined motivation. Study 2 ( N = 216) confirmed that helping by group members was seen as more collectively self-determined than helping by a group representative, producing effects on pride, well-being, and support. Study 3 ( N = 124) explores a qualifier of these effects: People who identify more strongly with the leader who is providing the help also experience representative helping as more collectively self-determined, thereby promoting well-being, group pride, and support. Findings highlight the value of integrating self-determination theory with intergroup theories to consider collective aspects of self-determination.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 14%
Student > Master 10 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Other 19 23%
Unknown 17 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 40 48%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 8%
Social Sciences 7 8%
Sports and Recreations 2 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 22 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 March 2017.
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#13,544,912
of 22,959,818 outputs
Outputs from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#2,249
of 2,704 outputs
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#159,660
of 308,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#24
of 33 outputs
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