Abstract
ABSTRACT Literature has shown that citizens’ mistrust in national institutions has a negative impact on their involvement with, and commitment to, their national group. We examine the idea that citizenship efficacy beliefs may revert this process. We propose that facing institutional inefficacy to exert social control, beliefs that civic participation is effective, strengthens individuals’ commitment to the national group. Participants (N = 176) were informed that national institutions were effective (vs. ineffective) in reacting to white-collar crime, and that citizens’ civic/political participation had an effective (vs. ineffective) impact on government’s decisions, the political system and their nation’s future. Results suggest that citizenship efficacy beliefs are crucial to counteract or even revert citizens’ disinvestment in the national group caused by the perception that the social control system is ineffective. We discuss the results in light of the theoretical and empirical framework of social psychology of citizenship and subjective group dynamics theory.
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