Factores psicosociales que motivan la acción colectiva ambiental: el camino hacia la sostenibilidad

Abstract

From this perspective, the main objective of this doctoral thesis was the analysis of certain psychosocial factors as antecedents of collective environmental action, fundamentally taking, as a frame of reference, the SIMCA model (Social Identity Model of Collective Action; van Zomeren, Postmes and Spears, 2008). This model proposes that politicized social identity is the primary factor to explain collective actions in the context of social protest against disadvantaged groups in the social structure. This model has been successfully applied in this context. Given that in the current literature of environmental psychology, the construct of environmental identity is emerging as a key and powerful factor when explaining pro-environmental behavior, this model offers us the opportunity to verify, if instead of taking as The central axis of politicized social identity, we can take in its place, social identity, as it has been conceptualized in the context of environmental psychology: environmental social identity. As can be seen in the development of this thesis, everything seems to indicate that indeed, this proposal may be relevant when explaining collective actions in the specific context of pro-environmental behavior. As a result of the various studies carried out, we came to the proposal of the EIMECA model (Environmental identity model of environmental collective actions), which proposes, among other aspects of interest, the important role of environmental social identity.