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Toward an assessment of social identity: The structure of group identification and its effects on in‐group evaluations
Author(s) -
Karasawa Minoru
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1991.tb00947.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social identity theory , identification (biology) , group (periodic table) , cognition , social psychology , identity (music) , group identification , salient , social group , social cognition , social identity approach , developmental psychology , chemistry , botany , physics , organic chemistry , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , acoustics , biology
Two studies were conducted to explore relations among different aspects of group identification and their effects on in‐group evaluations. Two aspects of identification were differentiated, namely, identification with the group membership (ID group ) and with other group members (ID member ). The first of these was assumed to be further divided into its cognitive and affective subcomponents. An identification scale was developed and administered to students of a Japanese vocational school. Factor analyses in Studies 1 and 2 distinguished ID group and ID member , but the cognitive and affective components of the former were not separated. Experimental studies concurrently undertaken confirmed many of the predictions and contentions by social identity theorists. Of particular importance was the result from Study 1 that members with low ID group deprecated the in‐group when their negative social identity became salient, whereas those with high ID group (but not ID member ) did not. Both theoretical and applied implications are discussed.