The negative impact of perceiving discrimination on collective well‐being: the mediating role of perceived ingroup status | Zendy

Leonardelli Geoffrey J. | Zendy; Tormala Zakary L. | Zendy

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The negative impact of perceiving discrimination on collective well‐being: the mediating role of perceived ingroup status

Author(s) -

Leonardelli Geoffrey J.,

Tormala Zakary L.

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

european journal of social psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609

H-Index - 111

eISSN - 1099-0992

pISSN - 0046-2772

DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.159

Subject(s) - ingroups and outgroups , psychology , social psychology , group identification , in group favoritism , social identity theory , social group , developmental psychology

Previous research has found that, among stigmatized group members, perceiving discrimination against the ingroup simultaneously yields a positive indirect effect on self‐worth (mediated by ingroup identification) and a negative direct effect (Branscombe, Schmitt, & Harvey, 1999). This study not only replicated these effects with a sample of women, but also revealed that the negative direct effect was mediated by perceived status of the ingroup: as perceived discrimination increased, perceived ingroup status decreased, which in turn lowered collective self‐worth. Perceiving discrimination also increased the accessibility of the stigmatized group's devalued status. A new direction for future research may be to consider when stigmatized group members might affirm the ingroup rather than protect self‐worth. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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