Experimentally manipulated high in‐group status can buffer personal self‐esteem against discrimination

Platow, Michael J.; Byrne, Leanne; Ryan, Michelle K.

doi:10.1002/ejsp.292

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“…These results are consistent with previous work from a social identity perspective that points to a connection between empowerment, social identity and feelings of wellbeing and satisfaction (Ashforth 2001;Haslam et al 2005 ;Platow, Byrne and Ryan 2005) as well as with the gerontological literature which has made connections between care-home autonomy, increased satisfaction and longer life (Barkay and Tabak 2002 ;Kasser and Ryan 1999;Lidz, Fischer and Arnold 1992). Nevertheless, the particular contribution of the present research is that it has established new theoretical and practical links between these two approaches.…”

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In home or at home? How collective decision making in a new care facility enhances social interaction and wellbeing amongst older adults

Knight

Haslam

2010

Ageing and Society

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Benevolent, long-term care can threaten older adults' sense of autonomy in a residential home environment. Increasing reliance on a hotel style of living has been seen to erode social identity, life satisfaction and even survival or lifespan. Drawing on evidence from both gerontological and social psychological literature, this paper examines the links between the empowerment of residents and their subsequent quality of life in the context of a move into a new care facility in a medium-sized town in South-West England. A longitudinal experiment was conducted during which 27 residents on one floor of a new facility were involved in decisions surrounding its décor, while those on another floor were not. The residents' attitudes and behaviour were monitored at three points over five months (four weeks pre-move, four weeks post-move, and four months post-move). Consistent with the social identity literature, members of the empowered group reported increased identification with staff and fellow residents in the new home, displayed enhanced citizenship, reported improved wellbeing, and made more use of the communal space. Moreover the staff found the empowered residents to be more engaged with their environment and the people around them, to be generally happier and to have better health. These patterns were observed one month after the move and remained four months later. Some implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

In home or at home? How collective decision making in a new care facility enhances social interaction and wellbeing amongst older adults

Knight

Haslam

2010

Ageing and Society

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“…This suggestion mirrors earlier research in which evaluative out-group favouritism produced self-esteem decreases (Hunter, Platow, Bell, Kypri, & Lewis, 1997). Although we may have expected that relatively high in-group status could buffer against such out-group favouritism (Platow, Byrne, & Ryan, 2005), our status manipulation clearly was not strong enough to overcome this negative differentiation. Although the current research cannot differentiate these processes, the logic of each follows from our broader theoretical analysis.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Psychological group memberships as outcomes of resource distributions

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Wilson

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Euro J Social Psych

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We propose that people can and will infer group memberships from resource distributions, and that these distributions have implications for people's understandings of the groups themselves and their own associations with these groups. We derive hypotheses from social identity and self-categorization theories, and test them in three experiments. In Experiment 1, participants systematically rated specific patterns of group memberships as more likely than others in light of specific resource distributions in a manner consistent with our predictions. In Experiment 2, intragroup distributive fairness led to greater perceived self-in-group similarity than intra-group distributive unfairness, while distributively unfair, in-group favouritism led to greater perceived self-in-group similarity than intergroup fairness. In Experiment 3, social identification dropped following unfair, out-group favouritism and intragroup unfairness, but not unfair, in-group favouritism, or intragroup and intergroup fairness. The current data provide support for our hypotheses and clear evidence that resource distributions can be providers of group membership information.

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“…This withholding of empowerment help under social identity threat stems from the role of in-group status in shaping self-definition and buttressing self-worth (Platow et al, 2005). In outlining his arguments, Nadler (2002), adopted the social identity assumption that, under specific circumstances (Bettencourt, Dorr, Charlton, & Hume, 2001), group members will pursue behavioural strategies that maximize the likelihood of retaining their group's relatively high status, especially when it is under threat.…”

Section: On the Role Of Intergroup Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Subsequently arguing from a social identity theory perspective (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), Nadler (2002Nadler & Halabi, 2006) made a nearly identical argument to Jackson and Esses (2000), but recognized that status differences between groups are neither solely nor always based on material differences. Intergroup status differences, within social identity theory, reflect relative rank-orderings along any valued prestige dimension, including relative task performance (Turner & Brown, 1978), abilities (Ellemers, van Knippenberg, de Vries, & Wilke, 1988), opportunities (Platow, Byrne, & Ryan, 2005), as well as economic advantage (Tajfel & Turner, 1979). Moreover, any threat, material or not, by the out-group to the status of the in-group can be grounds for withholding empowerment help (in Nadler's words, autonomous help) within Nadler's social identity theory analysis of helping.…”

Section: On the Role Of Intergroup Relationsmentioning

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On helping lower status out‐groups: The nature of the help and the stability of the intergroup status hierarchy

Cunningham

Platow

2007

Asian J of Social Psycho

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The current research expanded upon previous theoretical and empirical arguments regarding the nature of intergroup helping. In doing so, we considered the role of relative in-group status, the stability of this status, and the type of help provided. In a scenario study, we observed that members of a relatively high status group more strongly supported the provision of assistance to in-group members than members of a lower status out-group when the assistance was empowering in nature and when the high in-group status was unstable. When the intergroup status differences were stable, however, support for empowerment help to members of a lower status out-group was not significantly lower than support for such help to in-group members. We discuss these data with reference to realistic intergroup conflict theory and social identity theory.

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Experimentally manipulated high in‐group status can buffer personal self‐esteem against discrimination

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

In home or at home? How collective decision making in a new care facility enhances social interaction and wellbeing amongst older adults

In home or at home? How collective decision making in a new care facility enhances social interaction and wellbeing amongst older adults

Psychological group memberships as outcomes of resource distributions

On helping lower status out‐groups: The nature of the help and the stability of the intergroup status hierarchy

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