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📣 New CTRG preprint: The Genesis of Grievance: Examining the Formation of Grievances and their Impact Upon Violent Extremist Outcomes 📣 Here Bettina Rottweiler and @paulgillucl.bsky.social explore the relationship between grievance and violent extremism: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🔀 They use structural equation modelling to examine the effects of perceived victimhood, personal grievances, and anger rumination on attitudes and intentions to engage in violent extremism via revenge motivation and reduced self-control capacity

⚡ Findings demonstrate that experiencing personal grievances mediates the effect of individuals’ tendency for interpersonal victimhood on anger rumination - and highlight mediating effects of revenge motivation and low self-control on individual attitudes and intentions regarding extremist violence

⏭️ Practical implications: anger rumination may serve as a warning sign that an individuals’ perceived victimhood and personal grievances are translating into an increased vulnerability and potential escalation towards engagement in violent extremism, and thus may be a crucial point of intervention