ArticleThe British journal of social psychology2022
Who helps and why? A longitudinal exploration of volunteer role identity, between-group closeness, and community identification as predictors of coordinated helping during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Exploring mutual aid-based community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of community group buying in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Impact of Servant Leadership on Proactive Service Behavior: a Moderated Mediation Model.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- The manifestation and causes of public panic in the early stage of COVID-19 in China: a framework based on consciousness-attitude-behavior.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Mutual Aid Praxis Aligns Principles and Practice in Grassroots COVID-19 Responses Across the US.Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal · 2023Article
- Experiential COVID-19 factors predicting resilience among Spanish adults.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- 'All together now': Facilitators and barriers to engagement in mutual aid during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown.PloS one · 2023Article
- Rehearsing post-Covid-19 citizenship: Social representations of UK Covid-19 mutual aid.The British journal of social psychology · 2022Article
- Who helps and why? A longitudinal exploration of volunteer role identity, between-group closeness, and community identification as predictors of coordinated helping during the COVID-19 pandemic.The British journal of social psychology · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic Status and Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Roles of Community Identity and Perceived Control.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- More Than a COVID-19 Response: Sustaining Mutual Aid Groups During and Beyond the Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Doing it for us: Community identification predicts willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccination via perceived sense of duty to the community.Journal of community & applied social psychologyArticle
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Abstract
Mutual aid groups have allowed community members to respond collectively to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing essential support to the vulnerable. While research has begun to explore the benefits of participating in these groups, there is a lack of work investigating who is likely to engage in this form of aid-giving, although early accounts suggest that existing volunteers have played a significant part in the mutual aid phenomena. Taking a social identity approach, the present study sought to identify what social psychological processes predict this continued engagement by exploring predictors of coordinated COVID-19 aid-giving for pre-existing volunteers. A two-wave longitudinal online survey study (N = 214) revealed that volunteer role identity among existing volunteers at T1 (pre-pandemic) was positively associated with volunteer-beneficiary between-group closeness at T1, which in turn was positively associated with community identification at T1. This in turn positively predicted coordinated COVID-19 aid-giving at T2 (3 months later). This paper therefore reveals the intra- and intergroup predictors of pandemic-related coordinated aid-giving in pre-existing volunteers. Implications for voluntary organisations and emergency voluntary aid provision are discussed.
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