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Relative deprivation and ethnic identity
Author(s) -
Petta Gabrielle,
Walker Iain
Publication year - 1992
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.2044-8309.1992.tb00973.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , psychology , identity (music) , social psychology , social identity theory , construct (python library) , cognition , relative deprivation , immigration , social group , sociology , anthropology , geography , physics , acoustics , archaeology , neuroscience , computer science , programming language
Distinctions are made in the theory of relative deprivation (RD) between cognitive and affective components of RD and between egoistic and fraternalistic types of RD. These two distinctions are crossed to produce four kinds of RD. The present study investigated the links between these four kinds of RD and strength of ethnic identity in a sample of Italian immigrants resident in Perth, Western Australia. Although all four kinds of RD were related to ethnic identity, only cognitive fraternalistic RD emerged with a significant beta weight from a regression analysis predicting ethnic identity. Similar results were found when ethnic identity was broken down into attitudinal and behavioural components. Implications are drawn for the construct validity of RD, and for the links between RD theory and social identity theory.