TY - JOUR
T1 - Affect, Efficacy, and Protest Intentions
T2 - Testing a Multilevel, Dual-Pathway Model of Collective Action
AU - Robbins, Blaine
AU - Pfaff, Steven
AU - Matsueda, Ross
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Sociological Association 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - What are the consequences of affect and efficacy for protest intentions, and do these consequences stem from personal disposition and/or situational characteristics? Here, we test a dual-pathway model of collective action in which anger and efficacy operate at multiple levels of analysis. To test this model, we administer a factorial survey experiment of student protest to a random sample of undergraduate students (N = 880). We find that the effect of anger on protest intentions follows two routes—one dispositional and one situational—and that the effect of efficacy flows through a situational channel. We also find that anger and efficacy are triggered by a broad set of situational conditions (incidental grievances, selective rewards and punishments, collective action frames, and protest size) and that anger is also a function of a narrow set of dispositional factors (protest attitudes). Taken together, our findings support a multilevel, dual-pathway model of collective action.
AB - What are the consequences of affect and efficacy for protest intentions, and do these consequences stem from personal disposition and/or situational characteristics? Here, we test a dual-pathway model of collective action in which anger and efficacy operate at multiple levels of analysis. To test this model, we administer a factorial survey experiment of student protest to a random sample of undergraduate students (N = 880). We find that the effect of anger on protest intentions follows two routes—one dispositional and one situational—and that the effect of efficacy flows through a situational channel. We also find that anger and efficacy are triggered by a broad set of situational conditions (incidental grievances, selective rewards and punishments, collective action frames, and protest size) and that anger is also a function of a narrow set of dispositional factors (protest attitudes). Taken together, our findings support a multilevel, dual-pathway model of collective action.
KW - collective action
KW - dual-pathway model
KW - factorial survey experiment
KW - structural equation model
KW - student protest
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U2 - 10.1177/01902725251331032
DO - 10.1177/01902725251331032
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105008067194
SN - 0190-2725
JO - Social Psychology Quarterly
JF - Social Psychology Quarterly
M1 - 01902725251331032
ER -