Personal and Political: Post‐Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics

Muldoon, Orla T.; Lowe, Robert; Jetten, Jolanda; Cruwys, Tegan; Haslam, S. Alexander

doi:10.1111/pops.12709

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“…But lay and psychological models continue to see health behavior as a product of individual choices and actions. Strong assumptions about the role of individual factors rather than social, cultural, or political ones in shaping health behavior are evident across the literature in health psychology and epidemiology (Muldoon, Lowe, Jetten, Cruwys, & Haslam, 2021). These highly individualistic views regarding the determination of health behavior are consonant with an ideological position which implicitly supports commercialized economic Westerized models of health care, medicine, and pharma.…”

Section: Public Health and The Covid‐19 Crisis: The Limits Of Individualism And Individual Explanations Of Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Psychology of COVID‐19

Muldoon

Liu

McHugh

2021

Political Psychology

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has given rise to unprecedented and extraordinary conditions. It represents a profound threat to health and political and economic stability globally. It is the pressing issue of the current historical moment and is likely to have far‐reaching social and political implications over the next decade. Political psychology can inform our preparedness for the next phase of the pandemic as well as our planning for a post COVID‐19 world. We hope that this special issue will play its part in helping us to think how we manage and live with COVID‐19 over the coming decade. In this editorial, we review the key themes arising from the contributions to our special issue and, alongside existing knowledge highlight the relevance of political psychology to finding solutions during this time of crisis. The contributions to this special issue and the pandemic raise many classic topics of central interest to political psychology: leadership, solidarity and division, nationalism, equality, racism, and international and intergroup relations. In our editorial, we offer an analysis that highlights three key themes. First, the importance of sociopolitical factors in shaping behavior during this pandemic. Second, the relevance of political leadership and rhetoric to collective efforts to tackle SARS‐COV‐2. And third, how sociopolitical cohesion and division has become increasingly relevant during this time of threat and crisis.

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Section: Public Health and The Covid‐19 Crisis: The Limits Of Individualism And Individual Explanations Of Behaviourmentioning

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The Political Psychology of COVID‐19

Muldoon

Liu

McHugh

2021

Political Psychology

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“…Recent analyses have offered a new way of thinking about trauma that centers on appreciation of its social psychological dimensions (Muldoon, Haslam, et al, 2019, 2021). In an era of movements such as #metoo, #blacklivesmatter, and #neveragain, there is a rising tide of awareness that trauma is often social and political in origin.…”

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A resilience building collaboration: A social identity empowerment approach to trauma management in leprosy-affected communities.

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Winterburn²,

Jha³

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Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objectives: Communities affected by leprosy encounter multiple traumas and adversities and are some of the poorest in the world. A diagnosis of leprosy can have catastrophic implications for peoples social, health, and economic circumstances. In this article, we describe a reciprocal collaboration with a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that supports people affected by leprosy, trauma, and adversity in rural Nepal. We offer a social identity-based empowerment approach for two reasons. We argue this approach is particularly suited to support those impacted by trauma and its psychological aftermath as those affected are disproportionately from disempowered and marginalized groups. Second, we know that people gain strength from others with whom they share experiences. Method: We offer longitudinal data (N = 71) to support this model of a mutually respectful, participatory, and collaborative approach with the Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT), a social development NGO. Results: Findings of mediation analysis highlight that where a traumatic experience is highly stigmatized and isolating there is value in a group-based, self-help approach that emphasizes empowerment. Conclusion: A group-based approach that focuses on increasing knowledge and collective social resources is empowering for those affected by leprosy and adversity, because these resources build resilience. Clinical Impact StatementBuilt on the understanding that trauma and resilience are group-based phenomena, we present a groupbased social identity empowerment approach that orients to social position, resources, and power. We describe a reciprocal collaboration with the Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT), a social development nongovernmental organization working with impoverished, stigmatized, and traumatized leprosy affected communities in rural Nepal. NLT provide community outreach, using self-help groups with participatory, peer-to-peer learning. Our longitudinal research includes efforts to share empowering research capital with NLT. Results show that this group-based approach encourages shared social identity, which is the basis for learning, social participation, and psychological resilience.

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“…Perhaps less disputed is the contribution of social relationships and support to experiences of both resilience and growth. Access to social resources increases the likelihood of responding to adversity with resilience and of gaining an enriched sense of connection that is typical of PTG (Atkinson, Martin, & Rankin, 2009; Muldoon et al, 2021). It is the contribution of these social resources in shaping positive responses following violence and abuse that the present paper explores, with a particular focus on the social resources related to group memberships and the social identities that arise from them.…”

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“…Here we advance on previous research to examine (a) the contribution that having multiple positive group memberships makes to responses and (b) hypothesised mechanisms via which this might be achieved. First, we propose that the more positive social group memberships one has—referred to here as multiple group membership —the more likely one is to experience resilience and growth in association with abuse (Muldoon et al, 2021). Second, with anti‐violence activism.…”

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“…Rather, we propose that social groups provide people with the agency and capacity necessary to feel personally in control of their actions and life outcomes, primarily through drawing on the group's beliefs, motivations, and resources that through identification become internalised as one's own (Greenaway et al, 2015). In this context of depersonalisation, an individual gains strength from the group—as might be the case when drawing on the group's beliefs and motivations to actively challenge all forms of abusive behaviour in society—to feel more efficacious in responding to abuse violations both personally and collectively (Muldoon et al, 2021).…”

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Multiple group membership supports resilience and growth in response to violence and abuse

Haslam

Latilla

Muldoon

et al. 2021

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This paper examines the role that social group processes, and multiple group membership in particular, play in supporting resilience and post-traumatic growth following the experience of violence and abuse. Drawing on social identity theorizing, we develop and test a model that (a) predicts an association between multiple group membership and positive outcomes of resilience and post-traumatic growth, and (b) explores mechanisms, of personal control and identification with anti-violence activists, through which group membership might exert this effect. This model was tested using data from a sample of predominantly White South African adults recruited through numerous sources including a nongovernment organisation that supports victims of violence and abuse (N = 112). Results showed that multiple group membership was positively related to posttraumatic growth and provided a basis for enhanced personal control and identification with activists. Personal control also mediated the relationship between multiple group membership and resilience. We discuss the implications for theory and practice and suggest there is value in working with social group memberships following trauma to support recovery.

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Personal and Political: Post‐Traumatic Stress Through the Lens of Social Identity, Power, and Politics

Cited by 37 publications

References 189 publications

The Political Psychology of COVID‐19

The Political Psychology of COVID‐19

A resilience building collaboration: A social identity empowerment approach to trauma management in leprosy-affected communities.

Multiple group membership supports resilience and growth in response to violence and abuse

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