¿Por qué se participa? Explicando la protesta social regionalista a partir de dos modelos psicosociales

Abstract

The objective of present study was to determine the capacity of Social Identity Model and Psychosocial Motives Model to explain the participation in regionalist social protest actions in Chile. We applied a survey in a representative sample of 1200 subjects over age 18 residing in four regions of the country (Arica-Parinacota, O’Higgins, Los Ríos and Magallanes), conducted a series of multiple linear regression analysis to determine the explanatory power of each model. Results indicate that the Psychosocial Motives Model has better predictive capacity than the Social Identity Model (36% versus 4.9% of explained variance), and in the first Model, especially relevant are the "objective" and "social” motives. Also, the results reveals that identification with the region not predict regionalist protest participation, in contrast, the value given to the objectives of the mobilization appears highly associated to it. Results evidenced the importance of studying primary social networks to explain the behaviour of social protest.