Group dynamics and psychological well-being: The impact of groups on adjustment and dysfunction.

Forsyth, Donelson R.; Elliott, Timothy R.

doi:10.1037/10320-012

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“…We know that joining groups is one way individuals can cope with loneliness and isolation (Forsyth, 2018). When people struggle with these feelings, they often seek out support groups to feel less alone (Forsyth & Elliott, 1999). In addition to support groups, people seek out group psychotherapy to help them feel less alone and to address important issues.…”

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The psychology of the COVID-19 pandemic: A group-level perspective.

Marmarosh¹,

Forsyth²,

Strauß³

et al. 2020

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Objective: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) threatened not only people’s physical health but also every aspect of their psychological well-being: from their struggle to avoid contracting the disease, to their coping with the disruption of the normal course of their lives, to the trauma they endured when the virus took the lives of those they loved. The objective of this article is to consider the group-level processes that sustain people’s physical and psychological well-being during COVID-19. Method: Applying group dynamic and group therapy theory and research, we explore why COVID-19 spread so rapidly. We also explore how people cope with prolonged social isolation, distress, and social inequities, as well as how people deal with the psychological trauma of the disease, which includes heightened levels of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and complicated bereavement. Results: Researchers and theorists suggest that human beings are fundamentally social, and the need to gather with others is extremely important, especially during times of distress. The need to belong as well as the importance of reducing loneliness during uncertain times often encourages people to connect, despite recommendations to remain socially distant. Conclusions: Group treatment options developed by group psychotherapists are effective at reducing depression, anxiety, complicated grief, and stress. We conclude by examining the growing impact of online groups and the many ways that these groups help people improve their psychological well-being during the COVID-19 crisis.

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The psychology of the COVID-19 pandemic: A group-level perspective.

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Forsyth²,

Strauß³

et al. 2020

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…To conclude, when a collection of individuals perceives themselves as a group, a construct known as entitativity ( Campbell, 1958 ), psychological and interpersonal changes occur ( Harasty, 1996 ; Forsyth and Elliott, 1999 ). Compared to poor group cohesion offline, they use social media to build identity-based group cohesion to fight against involution.…”

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Youth are united online to fight against involution: a study of group cohesion on Weibo

Zhang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundIn China, involution, which means pressure to out-compete other group members, has attracted public attention on Weibo. The new online connotation of involution empowered group cohesion among youth. Dissimilar to other crises, this crise also closely relates to group cohesion concept. However, few previous group cohesion-related studies focus on this critical concept. This study explains why and how youth created group cohesion online when facing involution. First, by examining the relationship between involution and group cohesion. Second, by examining whether youth are united in the online discussion of involution by investigating the generational gap. Following this, this study analyzes the different opinions to identify why this group cohesion occurs, how youth think about involution, and why they regard “older adults” as others. Lastly, this study analyzes how youth use hashtags to attract more youth to voice their opinions, consequently leading to greater group cohesion.MethodsBy combining frontier computational methods with causation and axial coding, this study proposes a new way to in-depth analyze group cohesion on social media.ResultsThe results indicate that involution triggers poor online group cohesion, and online involution-related hot issues trigger identity-based group cohesion. Additionally, youth are significantly more negative than older adults, and their expressions are full of identity-based construction. By stressing the social roots and blaming the “other” (older adult group), youth united together online. These findings indicated that a generation gap does indeed exist and that youth unite on social media by posting related hashtags via “revealing social identity” and “positioning and becoming” strategies.ConclusionThe findings stress that involution is related to poor group cohesion and that social media offers a new way to face the involution crisis. Youth will use hashtags to unite and blame imagined enemies, such as older adults and the upper class. These findings might assist in understanding interventions that lead to more group cohesion.

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2001

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes

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Group dynamics and psychological well-being: The impact of groups on adjustment and dysfunction.

Cited by 10 publications

References 76 publications

The psychology of the COVID-19 pandemic: A group-level perspective.

The psychology of the COVID-19 pandemic: A group-level perspective.

Youth are united online to fight against involution: a study of group cohesion on Weibo

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