An Identity-Based Motivation Framework for Self-Regulation

Oyserman, Daphna; Lewis, Neil A.; Yan, Veronica X.; Fisher, Oliver; O'Donnell, S. Casey; Horowitz, Eric

doi:10.1080/1047840x.2017.1337406

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“…In explaining how structural features of the social world “get under the skin,” these ideas have a range of profound implications for health (Taylor, Repetti, & Seeman, ). Amongst other things, this is because perceiving oneself to share social identity with others is a basis for a sense of (a) trust and support (Haslam, Reicher & Levine, ); (b) self‐esteem (Jetten et al, ); (c) control, agency, and efficacy (Greenaway et al, ; Howell et al, ; Muldoon et al, ); and (d) purpose, direction, and meaning (Cruwys et al, ; Drury & Winter, ; Oyserman et al, ). Importantly, over the course of the last decade, each of these observations has been confirmed by a large body of empirical evidence obtained from diverse populations, in multiple domains, and across a range of clinical conditions and contexts (for a comprehensive review, see Haslam, Jetten, et al, ).…”

Section: Social Identity and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Group life shapes the psychology and biology of health: The case for a sociopsychobio model

Haslam

Jetten

et al. 2019

Social & Personality Psych

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Engel presented a compelling case for a biopsychosocial model of health. This challenged a biomedical model that he saw as reductionistic, physicalistic, and exclusionist. Yet despite its laudable goals and popularity, the biopsychosocial model can be faulted for being incremental, imprecise, and individualistic. Ultimately, this means it is no less reductionist than the biomedical model which it sought to supplant. In this paper, we present a reformulation of this model that foregrounds the capacity for social groups—and the social contexts in which those groups are embedded—to structure psychology and, through this, biology and health. This sociopsychobio model argues that the three elements of Engel's framework are not fixed and immutable but rather dynamic and interdependent. The model is consistent with a range of recent approaches to health that have focused on the important role that social class, social inequality, social structure, and social networks play in shaping health outcomes. In this paper, though, the concrete value of this reformulation is illustrated through a discussion of recent research that focuses on the role of group memberships and associated social identities in shaping the psychology and biology of stress. This review underlines two key points that are central to the general case for a sociopsychobio model of health. First, that groups are a force in the world that shape the psychology and biology of their members (as well as members of other groups) in ways that cannot be reduced to those group members' functioning as individuals. Second, that groups provide their members with a basis for seeking to change the world rather than simply accepting it. In this, group life is not merely an appendage to psychology and biology but is instead a basis for collective experiences that have the potential to unleash new expressions of both.

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Section: Social Identity and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Group life shapes the psychology and biology of health: The case for a sociopsychobio model

Haslam

Jetten

et al. 2019

Social & Personality Psych

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“…People make culturally tuned inferences about what these experiences imply for who they are or could become and what to do about it (Oyserman, 2007;Oyserman et al, 2017). Although typically considered as differing across groups, some aspects of human culture are likely universal because human culture developed from the survival necessity of connecting with others and adapting to group living (Boyd & Richerson, 1988;Cohen, 2001;Haidle et al, 2015;Oyserman, 2017;Schwartz, 1992).…”

Section: Identity As Situatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our organizing framework here is identity‐based motivation theory, a situated social cognition theory of motivation and goal pursuit — with special focus on when and how self‐regulation works (Oyserman, 2007; Oyserman et al, 2017). Identity‐based motivation theory starts with the disjuncture between decontextualized belief and contextualized reality.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservatism as a situated identity: Implications for consumer behavior

Oyserman

Schwarz

2017

J Consum Psychol

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Insufficient attention to political ideology as an organizing axis reduces predictive power. Jost (2017 – this issue) makes a significant contribution by outlining and documenting a set of relationships among personality factors, attitudes, values, and conservatism. The value of this approach is highlighting the possibility that ideology sticks when it fits features of the individual and hence has an enduring quality. This approach needs to be balanced by consideration of the power of the immediate situation to define what an identity means and the potential universality of many features associated with conservatism. We discuss both issues using identity‐based motivation theory as our organizing framework.

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“…Goal centrality should influence how emotions drive goal intentions. People are more likely to pursue and persist toward goals central to their selfconcept, versus more peripheral ones (Berkman, Livingston, & Kahn, 2017;Oyserman et al, 2017;Sheldon & Elliot, 1999). As a result, self-conscious emotions could influence goal intentions differently, depending on goal centrality.…”

Section: Goal Centralitymentioning

confidence: 99%