Psychology
Document Type
Article
Abstract
People make sense of their group's collective victimisation in different ways. These different collective victimisation beliefs may be linked to distinct resistance strategies against the ingroup's victimisation. However, most studies have only examined a few collective victimisation beliefs and resistance strategies, limited to prototypical collective action and failed to consider which constructs are most relevant for the given context. Addressing these gaps, the present study uses a multimethod approach with findings from a Q methodology study informing a survey study to examine the relationship between context-relevant, understudied collective victimisation beliefs and resistance strategies among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan living in Germany (N = 281). Additionally, we explored the potentially differential predictive power of three distinct holistic viewpoints on collective victimisation (assessed through vignettes) compared to more commonly used, standard items measuring individual constructs. Our results show that collective victimisation beliefs are important predictors of different forms of resistance: while perceived restrictions of the ingroup's collective cultural autonomy predicted engagement in both cultural resistance and nonviolent collective action, the perceived importance of maintaining the victimised nation's strength and unity predicted support for cultural resistance and for violent resistance against oppressors. © 2025 The Author(s). Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Publication Title
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
Publication Date
Summer 2025
Volume
35
Issue
4
ISSN
1052-9284
DOI
10.1002/casp.70148
Keywords
cultural resistance, diaspora, Kurds, Q surveys, resistance collective, victimization beliefs
Repository Citation
Ünal, Helin and Vollhardt, Johanna, "Different Beliefs About Collective Victimisation Predict Support for Distinct Resistance Strategies: Survey Findings Among the Kurdish Diaspora" (2025). Psychology. 966.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_psychology/966
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Student Publications
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Ünal, H., & Vollhardt, J. R. (2025). Different Beliefs About Collective Victimisation Predict Support for Distinct Resistance Strategies: Survey Findings Among the Kurdish Diaspora. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 35(4), e70148.
