When small acts are multiplied: Assessing everyday social justice behaviors

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI:10.5964/jspp.8161

Samantha A. Montgomery, B. T. Blankenship, Abigail J. Stewart

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Abstract

Using the Act Frequency Approach, we drew on majority White, U.S. samples to create a new measure of social justice behavior and examine its correlates. Although existing measures of social justice behavior focus on engagement in collective action, participants in Study 1 (n = 137) were encouraged to nominate and evaluate a broad set of acts relevant to their daily lives. The final 17-item Everyday Social Justice Behavior (ESJB) scale reflects a range of global and domain-specific actions rated as prototypical by both 53 undergraduate novices and 20 social justice experts in Study 2. Participants in studies 3 (n = 388) and 4 (n = 613) were then asked to rate how frequently they perform the items. As expected, women and sexual minorities, and those with left political orientation, engaged in more everyday social justice behavior. Moreover, those reporting more everyday social justice behavior also scored higher in structural attributions of social change, intersectional awareness, ratings of the importance of and confidence in taking action, openness to experience, extraversion, and empathy, while being lower in social dominance orientation, system justification, and the need for cognitive closure. In addition, those high in ESJB also reported more progressive activist engagement and intentions. Relations with activism were modest, suggesting social justice activism and ESJB are somewhat distinct forms of social justice behavior. This measure should be of broader use in similar (majority White) samples; the measure development process can also be used to assess such behaviors in other samples and contexts.

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当微小的行为成倍增加：评估日常社会正义行为

利用行为频率法，我们从美国白人占多数的样本中创建了一种新的社会正义行为测量方法，并研究了其相关性。尽管现有的社会正义行为测量方法主要关注集体行动的参与度，但我们鼓励研究 1 的参与者（n = 137）提名并评估与他们日常生活相关的一系列行为。在研究 2 中，53 名本科生新手和 20 名社会正义专家将 17 个项目的 "日常社会正义行为（ESJB）量表 "评为原型，该量表反映了一系列全球性和特定领域的行为。然后，研究 3（n = 388）和研究 4（n = 613）的参与者被要求对他们执行这些项目的频率进行评分。不出所料，女性和性少数群体以及政治倾向偏左的人日常参与社会正义行为的频率更高。此外，那些报告了更多日常社会正义行为的人在社会变革的结构性归因、交叉意识、对采取行动的重要性和信心的评价、对经验的开放性、外向性和移情方面的得分也较高，而在社会主导取向、系统合理性和认知封闭性需求方面的得分较低。此外，ESJB 值较高的人还报告说，他们更积极地参与到行动中来，并有更多的行动意向。ESJB与激进主义的关系不大，这表明社会正义激进主义和ESJB在某种程度上是不同形式的社会正义行为。这种测量方法应该在类似（白人占多数）的样本中得到更广泛的应用；测量方法的开发过程也可用于评估其他样本和环境中的此类行为。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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2.70

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4.80%

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40 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.