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Emotional and self‐esteem consequences of perceiving discrimination against a new identity group
Author(s) -
Meegan Cahal K.,
Kashima Emiko S.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2010.01316.x
Subject(s) - psychology , identification (biology) , discounting , social psychology , self esteem , identity (music) , affect (linguistics) , reading (process) , social identity theory , social group , communication , botany , physics , finance , political science , acoustics , law , economics , biology
With a sample of Asian international students, the consequences of perceiving pervasive discrimination against one's in‐group were examined by experimentally manipulating perceived discrimination (pervasive vs rare) and group identification (low vs high). We report evidence that supports and integrates aspects of two contrasted models; namely, the discounting model and the rejection–identification model. Consistent with both models, the effects of perceiving discrimination on one's psychological well‐being depended on the level of group identification. Nevertheless, after reading about pervasive discrimination, low ( vs high) identifiers reported less depressed affect, consistent with the discounting model. However, they also reported lower self‐esteem, consistent with the rejection–identification model.