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Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster: solidarity in the 2010 Chile earthquake

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:48 authored by John DruryJohn Drury, Rupert Brown, Roberto González, Daniel Miranda
Survivors of disasters commonly provide each other with social support, but the social-psychological processes behind such solidarity behaviours have not been fully explicated. We describe a survey of 1240 adults affected by the 2010 Chile earthquake to examine the importance of two factors: observing others providing social support and social identification with other survivors. As expected, emotional social support was associated with social identification, which in turn was predicted by disaster exposure through common fate. Observing others' supportive behaviour predicted both providing emotional social support and providing coordinated instrumental social support. Expected support was a key mediator of these relationships and also predicted collective efficacy. There was also an interaction: social identification moderated the relationship between observing and providing social support. These findings serve to develop the social identity account of mass emergency behaviour and add value to disaster research by showing the relevance of concepts from collective action.

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Centro de Medición Mide UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies; CONICYT; CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009

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  • Published

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Journal

European Journal of Social Psychology

ISSN

0046-2772

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Issue

2

Volume

406

Page range

209-223

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  • Psychology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-12-21

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-12-21

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