How Does Participation Experience in Collective Behavior Contribute to Participation Willingness: A Survey of Migrant Workers in China

Aiming at investigating the “repetitive dilemma” of collective behavior and the conditions under which participation experience affects willingness to participate. Based on a survey of migrant workers from Shenzhen in China, this study constructs a mediated moderating model, focusing on the moderating role of social networks in the relationship and the mediating role of institutional support. The results show that collective behavior participation experience has a significant positive predictive effect on willingness to participate. Institutional support has a significant negative predictive effect on willingness to participate in collective behavior. Social networks negatively moderate the relationship between collective behavior participation experience and institutional support, while positively moderating the relationship between institutional support and willingness to participate in collective behavior. The relationship between collective behavior participation experience and willingness to participate was negatively moderated by social networks through the indirect effect of institutional support. The results of the study have implications for exploring the repetition and formation conditions of collective behavior and guiding the group of migrant workers to reasonably express their willingness to participate in group demands.