VALUES EXPECTATIONS AND THE PREDICTION OF SOCIAL ACTION AN EXPECTANCY VALENCE ANALYSIS
VALUES EXPECTATIONS AND THE PREDICTION OF SOCIAL ACTION AN EXPECTANCY VALENCE ANALYSIS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00992246
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
NEWTON J W
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作者:
FEATHER N T;NEWTON J W
Two studies were conducted to test hypotheses about the relationship of values to action within the context of expectancy-valence theory. University students who had previously completed the Rokeach Value Survey answered questionnaires that related to social movement organizations and that contained attitude items, expectancy items and measures of willingness to assist these organizations. It was predicted that value rankings from the Rokeach Value Survey would be systemically related to attitudes toward social movement organizations; both attitudes and outcome expectancies (subjects' estimates of how helpful their action will be) would be correlated with measures of willingness to act on behalf of an organization and attitudes and expectancies would jointly account for more of the variance in action measures than either attitudes or expectancies can account for independently. Hypotheses were consistently supported across 2 measures of action, 2 contrasting organizations, hypothetical and actual commitments to act and 2 subject samples. These results extend the scope of the expectancy-valence approach by incorporating general values (conceived as motives) into the analysis and may have practical implications for social movement strategies.