The virtues of collective gatherings: a study on the positive effects of a major scouting event
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Abstract The present study addresses, in a highly ecological setting, the short‐ and long‐term psychosocial consequences of participation in a major scouting event. Using a quasi‐longitudinal design comprising three measures taken over two‐and‐a‐half months (i.e., baseline level; within the 24 hr following the event; 10 weeks after the gathering), we show that participation in this collective gathering was followed by a series of positive effects at the psychosocial level. More precisely, we noticed an increase in the scout's levels of social integration, and individual and social well‐being after their participation in the gathering. Further, in line with a central tenet of the neo‐Durkheimian model of collective processes, the results stress the key role of perceived emotional synchrony in the prediction of the outcomes. Higher perceived emotional synchrony during the gathering was associated with stronger in‐group identification, identity fusion, pride, openness to experience, self‐esteem, positive affects, and adhesion to specific scouting values. Finally, we found that the effects of participation lasted more than a few days and were predicted by the level of perceived emotional synchrony. These findings are the first to show that positive effects of participation in a collective event last for at least ten weeks.
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Participation and specifically perceived emotional synchrony strengthen social integration, self-esteem, positive affect, and socially shared beliefs.
“Participation and specifically PES strengthened social integration, self-esteem, positive affect, and socially shared beliefs (Páez et al., 2015; Pelletier, 2018; Bouchat et al., 2020; Wlodarczyk et al., 2020, 2021; Zumeta et al., 2020; Kettner et al., 2021).”
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One widely-used measure of collective effervescence consists of scales comprising from 5 to 18 items inspired by the concept of perceived emotional synchrony.
“One widely-used measure of CE consisted of scales comprising from 5 to 18 items inspired by the concept of PES described earlier in this article.”
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- Authors
- Bouchat, P., Rimé, B., Van Eycken, R., & Nils, F.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Psychological Sciences Research Institute Université catholique de Louvain Louvain‐la‐Neuve Belgium
- Corresponding author
- Bouchat, Pierre
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-12-26
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 189-201
- ISSN
- 0021-9029 (ISSN-L)
- 1559-1816
- OpenAlex
- W2997175581
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 6.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
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- Locations
- Journal of Applied Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- scouting, youth organizations, social integration, well-being, ingroup identification, identity fusion, pride, self-esteem, positive affect
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