When Small Acts Are Multiplied: Assessing Everyday Social Justice Behaviors

Abstract: Using the Act Frequency Approach, we drew on majority White, U.S. samples to create a new measure of social justice behavior and examine its correlates. Although existing measures of social justice behavior focus on engagement in collective action, participants in Study 1 (n = 137) were encouraged to nominate and evaluate a broad set of acts relevant to their daily lives. The final 17-item Everyday Social Justice Behavior (ESJB) scale reflects a range of global and domain-specific actions rated as prototypical by both 53 undergraduate novices and 20 social justice experts in Study 2. Participants in studies 3 (n = 388) and 4 (n = 613) were then asked to rate how frequently they perform the items. As expected, women and sexual minorities, and those with left political orientation, engaged in more everyday social justice behavior. Moreover, those reporting more everyday social justice behavior also scored higher in structural attributions of social change, intersectional awareness, r.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/8161

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: When Small Acts Are Multiplied: Assessing Everyday Social Justice Behaviors ; volume:11 ; number:2 ; day:13 ; month:12 ; year:2023 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 11, Heft 2 (13.12.2023)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Montgomery, Samantha A. ; Blankenship, Benjamin T. ; Stewart, Abigail J.

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.8161
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023122304150010271442
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:26 AM CEST