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Testing the social identity relative deprivation (SIRD) model of social change: The political rise of Scottish nationalism
Author(s) -
Abrams Dominic,
Grant Peter R.
Publication year - 2012
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.2044-8309.2011.02032.x
Subject(s) - relative deprivation , nationalism , psychology , feeling , social psychology , identity (music) , politics , social deprivation , social identity theory , structural equation modeling , group identification , social group , political science , law , statistics , physics , mathematics , acoustics
We tested a social‐identity relative deprivation (SIRD) model predicting Scottish nationalist beliefs and intention to vote for the separatist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP). Data were from a survey of a large and representative sample of Scottish teenagers administered in the late 1980s. The SIRD model distinguishes effects of group‐based and personal relative deprivation, which should be independent of one another. Importantly, social change beliefs should mediate the effects of both collective relative deprivation and group identification on protest intentions (in this case intention to vote for the SNP). Egoistic relative deprivation should be the strongest predictor of feelings of depression. Using structural equation modelling, the results strongly support this model and replicate in two different cohorts.