Open AccessPerceptions of Self and Group in the Context of a Threatened National Identity: A Field Study
Author(s) -
James E. Cameron,
Julie M. Duck,
Deborah J. Terry,
Richard N. Lalonde
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
group processes and intergroup relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.535
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1461-7188
pISSN - 1368-4302
DOI - 10.1177/1368430205048618
Subject(s) - psychology , ingroups and outgroups , social psychology , generalizability theory , social identity theory , perception , threatened species , social perception , context (archaeology) , social group , identity (music) , developmental psychology , paleontology , habitat , biology , physics , neuroscience , acoustics , ecology
Previous research indicates that people who are highly identified with their groupstend to remain committed to them under threat. This study examines thegeneralizability of this effect to (a) a real-life context involving the perceptionthat others view the ingroup (Australians) as intolerant of minorities and (b)various dimensions of social identification. The sample comprised 213 respondents toa random mail survey. Perceived threat was inversely related to self-stereotyping(i.e. perceptions of self-ingroup similarity), but only for individuals with weaksubjective ties to other group members. Threat perceptions were also predictive ofenhanced judgments of within-group variability on threat-relevant dimensions,particularly for individuals with weaker ingroup ties. Various strategies for copingwith a threatened social identity are linked to different facets of social identification
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