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‘To participate or not participate, that’s the question’: The role of moral obligation and different risk perceptions on collective action

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Uysal, Mete Sefa, Acar, Yasemin Gülsüm, Sabucedo, Jose-Manuel, Cakal, Huseyin·2022·Journal of Social and Political Psychology
DOI 10.5964/jspp.7207
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The current research investigates whether moral obligation and perceived close vs. distant risks of high vs. moderate risk collective actions are associated with willingness to participate in collective action in the case of Turkey. Two studies were conducted: one with re-placed university students after the July 15, 2016 coup d'état attempt (high-risk context; N₁ = 258) and one with climate strikes (moderate risk context; N₂ = 162). The findings showed that moral obligation predicts collective action in both studies, however, the strength of this relationship is contingent on the level of subjective likelihood of protest risk in the high-risk collective action (Study 1), but not in the moderate-risk collective action (Study 2). Study 2 extended the findings of Study 1 by showing that higher perceived climate crisis risks (e.g., extinction of many species, destroying the vast majority of vital resources; distant risk), but not risks of protest (e.g., being arrested, blacklisted; close risk) predicts higher willingness to participate in collective action. We discussed the role of moral obligation and different risk perceptions (e.g., distant, close, moderate, high) on climate movements and collective action of marginalized groups in repressive political contexts.

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  • Subjective evaluation, not expectation, of risks associated with protest action predicts this behavior.

    “To be more precise, it is instead the individual evaluations of these factors that are instrumental, as it is known that it is the subjective evaluation, not expectation, of risks associ -ated with protest action that predicts this behavior (Uysal et al., 2022 ).”

    From The Effect of Civic Engagement on Different Dimensions of Well-Being in Youth: A Scoping Review (2025) · cites this paper as Uysal et al., 2022

    The General Discussion (page unavailable) reports that subjective importance of protest risk, but not its subjective likelihood, predicted collective-action intentions. It also says this finding held for subjective importance only in Study 1, not Study 2. The citing sentence overgeneralizes that result and calls the measured outcome protest behavior rather than intention. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • Some scholars argue that strong ingroup identification can decrease subjective evaluation of risk associated with protest action, leading to an increase in the likelihood of participating in these activities.

    “Some scholars even argue that strong ingroup identification can decrease subjective evaluation of risk associated with protest action, leading to an increase in the likelihood of participating in these activities (Uysal et al., 2022 ).”

    From The Effect of Civic Engagement on Different Dimensions of Well-Being in Youth: A Scoping Review (2025) · cites this paper as Uysal et al., 2022

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Authors
Uysal, M. S., Acar, Y. G., Sabucedo, J.-M., & Cakal, H.
Affiliations
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
  • University of Dundee (GB)
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Venue
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Publisher
Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID)
Published
2022-08-26
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
445-459
ISSN
2195-3325 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.5964/jspp.7207
OpenAlex
W4293428264
Cited by
28
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 2
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8.27
Type
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en
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Funders
European Association of Social Psychology
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychology of Social Influence
Keywords
moral obligation, collective action, risk perception, climate strikes, willingness to participate, 2016 Turkish coup attempt, marginalized communities, climate movement

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