title: From Moment to Movement: Empowerment and Resilience as a Framework for Collective Action in Hong Kong.
abstract: The Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience (American Journal of Community Psychology, 52, 2013, 333) suggests that a set of resilience and empowerment resources fuel both initial and sustained participation in collective action. Using the case study of a prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong, the present study focused on the subset of those resources that are relevant in ongoing collective action: efficacy, skills, and maintenance. As individuals possess varying combinations of these resources, the present study utilized latent profile analysis to test how patterns of empowerment and resilience resources influence initial and long-term collective action. Five groups were identified: (a) Uncommitted/Uninspired; (b) Committed to Status Quo; (c) Mainstream Populist; (d) Empowered; and (e) Ambivalent. ANOVA and ANCOVA analyses found that there are significant group differences in initial and long-term participation. Groups with higher level of resources reported greater levels of initial participation than their counterparts; however, high resource groups did not uniformly report greater levels of intention to participate in future collective action. Of the maintenance processes tested, collective identity emerged as a particularly important predictor differentiating initial and sustained participation. Findings from the present study raise questions about how individuals with multiple identities can come together and participate in collective action.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Wing Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Lauren B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Cattaneo
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Winnie Wing Sze
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Mak
authors.affiliation: Department of Media & Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Wan-Ying
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003709:Democracy; D005260:Female; D006295:Health Resources; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D020377:Self Efficacy; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Collective action; Collective identity; Empowerment; Resilience; TMER