Collective Actions Of The Third Party: The Development Of Dual Pathways Model

Among the studies in collective action, dual pathways model is an important one. This model includes two psychological explanation to collective action(group-based anger & group efficacy, which can support the action in response to the collective disadvantage. These years, the researchers have developed this model, some found that sympathy or shame can predict collective action, also the self-efficacy is a prediction of collective action. The dual pathways model can not only explan the collective action of disadvantaged group, who suffer the injustice, the advantaged group also can initiate one.However, There are a little study on the third-party. And the research on it with the laboratory method is blank, therefore, This study selected Tianjin Normal University students as subjects, We confirm the efficacy of emotion-focused coping and the problem-focused coping in the first step. Then we set a situation that the other group was treated unfair, exploring the the relationship between the dual pathways model and the third-party collective action. draw the following conclusions:In study 1:The main effect of moral outrage (emotion-focused coping) is significant, The subjects with high moral outrage show stronger intention to join collective action man who have a lower moral outrage. Meaningwhile as the problem-focused coping, group efficacy also can predict the collective significantly. The more group efficacy is felt, the stronger subject’s intention to engage a collective action. and there is no relationship between the two pathways statistically.In study 2:We set a situation that a group is faced unfairly, we found that when the third-party perceived some group suffer injustice, they will feel moral outrage,predicting the collective action strongly, the group efficacy will predict the collective action too. According to structural equation modeling, we found that the data support the irrelevant between sense of injustice and collective action. And the moral outrage has nothing to do with the group efficacy.