Browsing by Author "Uzumceker, Emir"

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The roles of national and global identities and leaders in the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines developed by different countries (Los roles de las identidades y los lideres nacionales y globales en la aceptacion de las vacunas contra la COVID-19 desarrolladas por diferentes paises)
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Akfirat, Serap; Uzumceker, Emir; Uysal, Mete Sefa; Yurtbakan, Taylan; Ergiyen, Tolga; Goruryilmaz, Taner
The current paper aims to study the social-psychological factors that would play roles in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Specifically, we examined whether national and global identifications and the leaders whom people think being in charge of managing the COVID-19 pandemic on a national scale could explain people's acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines developed by different countries. We proposed a model in which people's assessment of the leader in terms of identity-leadership mediates the relationship between different identification types (i.e., global and national) and acceptance of Western, Asian or national vaccines. The model was tested on self-reported data collected in Turkey (N = 694) utilizing Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in R software. The results revealed that national identification positively predicted acceptance of national vaccines and negatively predicted acceptance of Western vaccines; both of the relationships were also mediated by people's assessments of the leader in terms of identity-leadership dimensions. On the other side, global identification positively predicted acceptance of Western vaccines. The implications of the findings were discussed in terms of their practical contributions along with their theoretical relevance.
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Social Identification and Collective Action Participation in the Internet Age: a Meta-Analysis
(Masarykova Univ, Fac Social Studies, 2021) Akfirat, Serap; Uysal, Mete Sefa; Bayrak, Fatih; Ergiyen, Tolga; Uzumceker, Emir; Yurtbakan, Taylan; Ozkan, Ozlem Serap
Since the digitally-mediated large-scale protests took place all over the world, the role of social identities in collective actions has become the center of academic attention. Some scholars have claimed that interpersonal or individual reasons have become more important than collective identifications in participating digitally-mediated collective actions. To answer the question that whether social identification has lost its centrality in collective actions in the Internet age, we conducted a meta-analysis of 46 studies (N = 18,242) which examined digitally-mediated collective actions across the world reported between January 2011 and January 2020. We focused on the relationship between social identification and collective action, and the possible moderator effects of group type to be identified (emergent vs. pre-existing group), participation type (actual behavior vs. intention), and WEIRDness of the sample. The analyses showed a moderate to strong relationship between social identification and participation in digitally-mediated collective actions, while group type was the only significant moderator. Accordingly, the relationship between identification with emergent groups and collective action participation was much stronger compared to the relationship between identification with pre-existing groups and collective action participation. We discussed the theoretical implications of the results emphasized the basic dynamics of collective actions.