Research on group identification has shown it to be a surprisingly weak predictor of intentions to take large-scale social action. The weak links may exist because researchers have not always examined identification with the type of group that is most relevant for predicting action. Our focus in two studies (one in Romania and one in Australia, both Ns ¼ 101) was on opinion-based groups (i.e. groups formed around shared opinions). We found that social identification with opinion-based groups was an excellent predictor of political behavioural intentions, particularly when items measuring identity certainty were included. The results provide clear evidence of the role of social identity constructs for predicting commitment to social action and complement analyses of politicised collective identity and crowd behaviour.
Problem Statementextracurricular activity that generates stress and the intensity of this stress is positively and high correlated with the frequency of somatic symptoms generated by stress. Purpose and objectives of the studyThis study was focused on the stress which generated somatic symptoms at Romanian teachers from kindergarten and primary schools, studying its connection with the stress generated by one of the extracurricul ar activities. There were compared two types of motivations for work and their effect on the relation between stress and somatic symptoms. Methodology 60 (M=42): 501 teachers were from kindergarten and 668 from the primary school. Somatic complaints, stress related to curricular and extracurricular activities, and intrinsic-extrinsic motivations are measured with Likert 6 point scales. Findings and conclusionIntrinsic-extrinsic motivation, stress related to extracurricular activities and somatic complaints are evaluated. The associations between the stress generated by the imposed extracurricular activities and somatic complaints (a) headaches, (b) inability to concentrate, (c) colds, (d)sore throats, and (e)dizziness) are described. As expected, their relations are stronger when the motivation for the extracurricular activities is extrinsic then when these are intrinsic. As main result there was found that the frequenc
This article investigates whether the perceived threat of terrorism explains the support for right-wing Eurosceptic parties and Euroscepticism above and beyond other relevant variables, including perceived economic and immigration threats. We first examined the entire Eurobarometer samples of 2014 and 2015, and then conducted survey experiments in four European Union (EU) countries, that is, United Kingdom (
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= 197), France (
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= 164), Italy (
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= 312), and Romania (
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= 144). Our findings suggest that the perceived threat of terrorism has a small effect on the negative attitudes toward the EU above and beyond the effect of immigration and economic threats and other basic control variables. The relationship between these variables varies across countries and it is less linear than we might expect.
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