Mutual aid groups have allowed community members to respond collectively to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing essential support to the vulnerable. While research has begun to explore the benefits of participating in these groups, there is a lack of work investigating who is likely to engage in this form of aid-giving, although early accounts suggest that existing volunteers have played a significant part in the mutual aid phenomena. Taking a social identity approach, the present study sought to identify what social psychological processes predict this continued engagement by exploring predictors of coordinated COVID-19 aid-giving for pre-existing volunteers. A two-wave longitudinal online survey study (N = 214) revealed that volunteer role identity among existing volunteers at T1 (pre-pandemic) was positively associated with volunteer-beneficiary between-group closeness at T1, which in turn was positively associated with community identification at T1. This in turn positively predicted coordinated COVID-19 aid-giving at T2 (3 months later). This paper therefore reveals the intra- and intergroup predictors of pandemic-related coordinated aid-giving in pre-existing volunteers. Implications for voluntary organisations and emergency voluntary aid provision are discussed.

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谁提供帮助，为什么？对志愿者角色身份、群体间亲密度和社区认同作为 COVID-19 大流行期间协调帮助的预测因素的纵向探索

互助团体使社区成员能够集体应对 COVID-19 大流行，为弱势群体提供必要的支持。虽然研究已经开始探索参与这些团体的好处，但缺乏调查谁可能参与这种形式的援助的工作，尽管早期的报道表明现有的志愿者在互助中发挥了重要作用现象。本研究采用社会认同方法，试图通过探索为预先存在的志愿者提供协调 COVID-19 援助的预测因素，来确定哪些社会心理过程可以预测这种持续参与。两波纵向在线调查研究（N = 214）显示，T1（大流行前）现有志愿者中的志愿者角色认同与 T1 的志愿者-受益人组间亲密度呈正相关，这反过来又与 T1 的社区认同呈正相关。这反过来又积极地预测了在 T2（3 个月后）协调 COVID-19 援助。因此，本文揭示了现有志愿者中与流行病相关的协调援助的组内和组间预测因素。讨论了对志愿组织和紧急自愿援助提供的影响。