Perceived self-to-other similarity as a mediator of the effects of gender and racial composition on identification in small groups.

Garcia, Randi L.

doi:10.1037/gdn0000075

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“…In addition, people quickly determine which subgroup they belong to in order to simplify their social world (Hoog and Terry, 2000). Researchers (Garcia, 2017;Johnson and Avolio, 2018) confirm that employees identify with coworkers based on perceived similarity to one another. As such, we predict that visible dissimilarity may stimulate individuals to self-segregate into minority subgroups.…”

Section: Group Identificationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Leadership-promoted diversity climate and group identification

Žnidaršič

Bogilović

Černe

et al. 2021

LODJ

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PurposeBesides diversity's positive effects, groups of “we” against “them” may form in accordance with social categorization theory, showing diversity's negative consequences. The authors aim to reconcile these results and examine their boundary conditions.Design/methodology/approachThe authors studied 584 working professionals from five contexts (transnational companies dealing with multicultural interactions) and analyzed data using moderated-mediation procedures.FindingsA leader-promoting diversity climate plays a crucial role in moderating the negative relationship between perceived dissimilarity and group identification, which is mediated by value dissimilarity.Originality/valueThis study mainly contributes by treating dissimilarity as a multicomponent construct, emphasizing the crucial differences embodied in various conceptualizations of dissimilarity – namely visible and value dissimilarity. For dissimilarity to result in group identification, the results highlight leaders' crucial role, beyond that of organizations and individuals, in stimulating a diversity-embracing climate in work units.

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Section: Group Identificationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Leadership-promoted diversity climate and group identification

Žnidaršič

Bogilović

Černe

et al. 2021

LODJ

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“…Fortunately, the burgeoning awareness of the importance of identity statuses to individuals' behaviors in, and capacity to derive benefit from, group psychotherapy is giving rise to research on linkages between members' perceptions of one another's identities and group behavior. For example, Garcia (2017) found that when members see one another as sharing an identity status, they are poised to recognize similarities between them. Conversely, when they believe they are in a different racial or gender identity category, they are primed to see differences between them.…”

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confidence: 99%

Contextual dimensions.

Brabender¹,

Fallon²

Group Psychotherapy in Inpatient, Partial Hospital, and Residential Care Settings.

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Group psychotherapy is conducted, always, within a context. For an outpatient group, whether that group takes place in an outpatient clinic versus a private practice setting will bear on the group's functioning in myriad ways. For example, in an outpatient clinic, it may be necessary to place new members in a group quickly-without the opportunity to prepare existing members. The private practice group typically would not have this limitation-that is, the group psychotherapist would have greater control over the session in which a member is introduced to the group. In this book, we focus on groups that are thoroughly embedded in the broader treatment context and derive their character from this context. For this reason, we use the term contextual group psychotherapy to underscore this point. In contextual group psychotherapy, the group member has the benefit of a treatment team and a host of other therapeutic elements. He or she is likely to have myriad relationships with other group members and the therapists, including relationships that take place outside the group. All of these factors can help or hinder

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