'We fight for a better future for our country': Understanding the Ukrainian Euromaidan movement as the emergence of a social competition strategy

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dc.contributor.authorChayinska, Maria
dc.contributor.authorMinescu, Anca
dc.contributor.authorMcGarty, Craig
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T21:19:42Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T21:19:42Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe current research seeks to develop an analysis of Ukraine's Euromaidan social movement in psychological terms. Building on the classic understanding of social competition strategies, we argue that Euromaidan protests can be conceived as an attempt of pro-European Union (EU) Ukrainians to realign the boundaries of the Ukrainian national identity by defeating the alternative pro-Russia integration project championed by the government. In particular, building on the encapsulated model of social identity in collective action, we suggest that Euromaidan is an emergent opinion-based group identity, formed in response to injustice through two self-categorical processes - group-level self-investment into the shared entity (i.e., Ukrainian national category) and disidentification from the alternative Russia-led Customs Union. Using a sample of 3,096 participants surveyed during the protests, we tested our hypotheses with structural equation modelling, where the model accounting for the direct and indirect paths of the self-categorical processes was expected to explain collective action intentions to a great extent than models applying the social identity and encapsulation models of collective action. We found evidence consistent with the proposal that Euromaidan was a pro-EU opinion-based group, formed in response to the government's decision to suspend the EU-Ukraine agreement and around individuals' general perception of unfair government authorities.
dc.description.funderCentre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES)
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/bjso.12283
dc.identifier.eissn2044-8309
dc.identifier.issn0144-6665
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12283
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/101189
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000454681500003
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final65
dc.pagina.inicio45
dc.revistaBritish journal of social psychology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectcollective action
dc.subjectemergent group identities
dc.subjectgroup disidentification
dc.subjectsocial identification
dc.subjectsocial movements
dc.subject.ods10 Reduced Inequality
dc.subject.odspa10 Reducción de las desigualdades
dc.title'We fight for a better future for our country': Understanding the Ukrainian Euromaidan movement as the emergence of a social competition strategy
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen58
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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