TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting support for social action: How values, justice-related variables, discrete emotions, and outcome expectations influence support for the Stolen Generations
AU - Feather, Norman
AU - Woodyatt, Lydia
AU - McKee, Ian
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - The Stolen Generations are Indigenous Australians who were taken from their homes by the State and placed in children's homes or foster care. This study investigated relations between the values held by Non-Indigenous Australians and willingness to support a hypothetical organization set up to repair the damage caused. Participants (N = 235) completed the Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire followed by items concerning their perceived responsibility; Indigenous deservingness; feelings of pleasure, anger, guilt, regret, shame, and sympathy; their support for the organization; and how efficacious they expected their support would be. It was found at the bivariate level that support was positively associated with self-transcendence values (universalism, benevolence) and negatively associated with both self-enhancement (power, achievement, hedonism) and security values. A path analysis implied that universalism values influenced support via the justice-related variables of perceived responsibility and undeserved treatment, outcome expectations, negative emotions, and sympathy. This study contributes new information about the effects of values on personal willingness to repair past wrongs.
AB - The Stolen Generations are Indigenous Australians who were taken from their homes by the State and placed in children's homes or foster care. This study investigated relations between the values held by Non-Indigenous Australians and willingness to support a hypothetical organization set up to repair the damage caused. Participants (N = 235) completed the Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire followed by items concerning their perceived responsibility; Indigenous deservingness; feelings of pleasure, anger, guilt, regret, shame, and sympathy; their support for the organization; and how efficacious they expected their support would be. It was found at the bivariate level that support was positively associated with self-transcendence values (universalism, benevolence) and negatively associated with both self-enhancement (power, achievement, hedonism) and security values. A path analysis implied that universalism values influenced support via the justice-related variables of perceived responsibility and undeserved treatment, outcome expectations, negative emotions, and sympathy. This study contributes new information about the effects of values on personal willingness to repair past wrongs.
KW - Emotions
KW - Justice
KW - Outcome expectations
KW - Social action
KW - Values
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869080993&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11031-011-9262-5
DO - 10.1007/s11031-011-9262-5
M3 - Article
SN - 0146-7239
VL - 36
SP - 516
EP - 528
JO - Motivation and Emotion
JF - Motivation and Emotion
IS - 4
ER -