The current study examines the nature of actions that U.S. college women (N = 267) engage in to promote, protect, or enhance the welfare of other women. The study had two goals: 1) to distinguish between traditional forms of action (traditional collective action) and more informal, interpersonal, forms of action (small acts) among college women; and 2) to test whether the classic antecedents of collective action (gender identity, feminist identity, women’s activist identity, efficacy, appraisals of gender inequality, and injustice standards) are differentially predictive of these two types of participation. A confirmatory factor analysis provided strong support for these two distinct forms of participation: traditional collective action and small acts. Moreover, whereas women’s activist identity was the only predictor of traditional collective action, all predictors except gender identification and perceived group efficacy predicted small acts. Practical and theoretical implications for mobilizing college women for traditional collective action versus small acts are discussed.

目前的研究考察了美国大学女性 ( N  = 267) 为促进、保护或提高其他女性福利而采取的行动的性质。该研究有两个目标：1）区分传统的行动形式（传统的集体行动）和更非正式的、人际交往的行动形式（小行动）) 在女大学生中；2) 检验集体行动的经典前因（性别认同、女权主义认同、女性激进主义认同、功效、对性别不平等的评估和不公正标准）是否对这两种参与类型有不同的预测。验证性因素分析为这两种不同的参与形式提供了强有力的支持：传统的集体行动和小行动。此外，虽然女性的积极分子身份是传统集体行动的唯一预测因素，但除了性别认同和感知的群体效能之外的所有预测因素都预测小行为。讨论了动员大学女性进行传统集体行动与小行动的实践和理论意义。