EIMECA: A Proposal for a Model of Environmental Collective Action Carmona Moya, Beatriz Calvo Salguero, Antonia Aguilar-Luzón, María del Carmen Environmental identity Environmental collective action Emotions Moral conviction Group efficacy beliefs The deterioration and destruction of the environment is becoming more and more considerable and greater efforts are needed to stop it. To accomplish this feat, all members of society must identify with solving environmental problems, environmental collective action being one of the most relevant means of doing so. From this perspective, the analysis of the psychosocial factors that lead to participation in environmental collective action emerges as a priority objective in the research agenda. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the role of “environmental identity”, as conceptualized by Clayton, as a central axis for explaining environmental collective action. The inclusion of the latter in the theoretical framework of the SIMCA (social identity model of collective action) model gives rise to the model that we have called EIMECA (environmental identity model of environmental collective action). Two studies were conducted (344 and 720 participants, respectively), and structural equation modeling was used. The results reveal that environmental identity and a variety of negative emotional affects, as well as group efficacy, accompanied by hope for a simultaneous additive effect, are critical when it comes to predicting environmental collective action. 2021-05-28T14:04:53Z 2021-05-28T14:04:53Z 2021 journal article Carmona-Moya, B.; Calvo-Salguero, A.; Aguilar-Luzón, M.-d.-C. EIMECA: A Proposal for a Model of Environmental Collective Action. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5935. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115935 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68865 10.3390/su13115935 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España MDPI