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Although leisure constraints that individuals have to cope with can negatively affect their social inclusion and satisfaction with life, little research has addressed the link between these variables. Therefore, the current paper examined the moderator role of leisure constraints on the relationship between satisfaction with life and leisure constraints among adults living in five different European countries. The respondents were 1,382 women and 877 men adults. The findings of analysis revealed that all factors used in the study accounted for 15% of the variance in satisfaction with life and social inclusion had a significant and positive impact on satisfaction with life. As a result, it can be said that leisure constraints had a moderating effect on the relationship between satisfaction with life and social inclusion. The present research study recommends that social inclusion should be encouraged through decreasing to leisure constraints to increase the life satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the Gezi Park protests in Turkey by corroborating the idea that the process of social identity leadership through social media contributes to the formation of protestor identity, which, in turn, allows people to participate in collective action. Specifically, we argued that evaluations of social media posts in terms of the three dimensions of the Identity‐Leadership Model (ILM)—identity prototypicality, advancement and the entrepreneurship of leaders, play a crucial role in collective action participation via identification with newly shaped protestor group. To address this argument, a retrospective survey study was conducted with a sample of 403 Turkish citizens who participated in the Gezi Park protests. Analyses showed that the three dimensions of ILM predicted the identification with the emergent protestor group. Furthermore, people's evaluations of social media users regarding group prototypicality, identity advancement and the entrepreneurship dimensions, based on their social media posts predicted participation in the Gezi Park protests following the calls of different types of social media accounts (personal, anonymous and institutional). In addition to this, identification with the protestor group significantly mediated the relationships between evaluations on social media accounts' leadership features between participation in collective action. We believe that our findings show that social identity leadership through social media contributes to the formation of a protestor group and identity which in turn, helps explain participation in collective action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most research on refugee integration focuses on attitudes toward refugees among the members of the host society. Consequently, little is known on refugees' intentions to return home or migrate to another country. The present research investigates whether positive and negative contact with Turks are related to Syrian refugees' migration decisions via perceived discrimination, identification with the host society, and life satisfaction. Using a sample of Syrian adults (N = 285), we found that positive contact with Turks was associated with reduced return intentions via perceived discrimination and identification with the host society and with reduced intentions to migrate from Turkey to the Western countries via life satisfaction. Negative contact was only associated with increased return intentions via perceived discrimination. This study underscores the role of intergroup contact to better understand migration decisions of refugees and potential underlying mechanisms to explain this association. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]