Uncovering hockey fans' motivations behind their derogatory behaviors and how these motives predict psychological well-being and quality of social identity

Amiot, Catherine E.; Sansfaçon, Sophie; Louis, Winnifred R.

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2012.12.004

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“…A theoretical limitation is that the global needs measured in the present research do not represent the full range of psychological needs that might be met through a process of social identity growth. Research in the self‐determination tradition has recently investigated how meeting needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence might encourage identification with a diverse range of groups (e.g., Amiot & Sansfaçon, ; Amiot, Sansfaçon, & Louis, ; Greenaway, Amiot, Loius, & Bentley, forthcoming). The present research suggests that it may also be fruitful to investigate the reverse causal path whereby gains in group identification satisfy these global needs and thereby enhance self‐determined motivation.…”

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Social identities promote well‐being because they satisfy global psychological needs

Greenaway

Cruwys

Haslam

et al. 2015

Euro J Social Psych

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Social identities are known to improve well-being, but why is this? We argue that this is because they satisfy basic psychological needs, specifically, the need to belong, the need for self-esteem, the need for control and the need for meaningful existence. A longitudinal study (N = 70) revealed that gain in identity strength was associated with increased need satisfaction over 7 months. A cross-sectional study (N = 146) revealed that social identity gain and social identity loss predicted increased and reduced need satisfaction, respectively. Finally, an experiment (N = 300) showed that, relative to a control condition, social identity gain increased need satisfaction and social identity loss decreased it. Need satisfaction mediated the relationship between social identities and depression in all studies. Sensitivity analyses suggested that social identities satisfy psychological needs in a global sense, rather than being reducible to one particular need. These findings shed new light on the mechanisms through which social identities enhance well-being.

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Social identities promote well‐being because they satisfy global psychological needs

Greenaway

Cruwys

Haslam

et al. 2015

Euro J Social Psych

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281

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“…Social norms—the unspoken rules of acceptable behavior—are strongly related to intergroup attitudes toward a variety of groups (Crandall, Eshleman, & O'Brien, 2002; Falomir‐Pichastor, Chatard, Selimbegovic, Nonan, & Mugny, 2013; Monteith, Deneen, & Toonan, 1996) and intergroup behaviors (Gabarrot, Falomir, & Mugny, 2009; Jetten, Spears, & Manstead, 1996), even among children (Nesdale & Dalton, 2011). In addition to predicting attitudes, social norms predict negative behaviors like insulting and derogating outgroup members (e.g., Amiot, Sansfaçon, & Louis, 2013; Amiot, Sansfaçon, & Louis, 2014). Given the importance of norms in predicting both behavior and attitudes toward outgroup members, we propose that perceptions of norms as accepting of prejudice in online gaming will in turn predict how people behave in this environment.…”

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The interplay of individual differences, norms, and group identification in predicting prejudiced behavior in online video game interactions

Cary

Axt

Chasteen

2020

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Despite the increasing popularity of video games and the diversity of people who play, prejudice remains common in online gaming. In the current study, we use structural equation modeling to test the role of social norms, individual differences, and gamer identification as predictors of how likely someone is to report engaging in prejudiced behavior while playing online video games. We also test the relative importance of these predictors to assess how likely people are to confront prejudice when it occurs in online video games. Participants (N = 384) completed a series of questionnaires to assess their attitudes and perceptions of online gaming norms, as well as to report their own prejudiced and confrontation behavior in video games. We found that both social norms and individual differences are significant predictors of behavior in online gaming. The more normative people report prejudice to be, the more they report making prejudiced comments. Similarly, the more normative confrontation of prejudice is reported to be, the more likely people are to report confronting prejudice. The more people endorsed generally prejudiced attitudes, the more likely they were to report making prejudiced remakes in online gaming and the less likely they were to report confronting prejudiced remarks. These results provide a foundation to inform interventions to reduce prejudice in gaming and indicate that both individual differences and norms are important to consider when designing interventions.

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“…Relying on identification theory (Tolman, 1943), social identity theory (Tajfel and Turner, 1986), and theories on the influence of identification on motivation (Foote, 1951), prior research has examined sources of identification, such as brand personality, identity similarity, and distinctiveness (Carlson et al, 2009;Kuenzel and Halliday, 2010;Lam et al, 2013) and the consequences of identification (Bhattacharya and Sen, 2003;Decrop and Derbaix, 2010;Malär et al, 2012). Research in the sports context has followed similar streams (Amiot et al, 2013;Bruner et al, 2014). These studies show that identification with a sports brand entails special features that warrant further attention (End et al, 2002;Kaynak et al, 2008), including the antecedents of sports brand identification (De Backer et al, 2011;Kuenzel and Halliday, 2010;Tsiotsou, 2012) and the outcomes of identification (Bruner et al, 2014;McDonald, 2010;Stevens and Rosenberger, 2012).…”

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“…Identification with a sports team is defined in terms of people's perceived sense of belonging to the team, and that sense of belonging is integral to how they define themselves (Ashforth and Mael, 1989). Identification represents a predisposition on the part of sports consumers to develop an emotional attachment to a team and demonstrate support for it (Bruner et al, 2014;De Backer et al, 2011;Donavan et al, 2005) and addresses behavior directed to a sports event and repurchase behavior (Amiot et al, 2013;Bee and Havitz, 2010). For a strongly identified person, being a fan is closely linked to self-identity and its congruence with the brand personality (Fetchko et al, 2013, p. 42).…”

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How do brand personality, identification, and relationship length drive loyalty in sports?

Karjaluoto

Munnukka

Salmi

2016

Journal of Service Theory and Practice

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend brand identification theory to the sports team context by testing the direct and indirect effects of a sports team’s personality, sports fans’ identification with the team, and the effect of the length of fans’ relationship with a team on their loyalty to it. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a quantitative study among ice hockey fans of one Finnish hockey team before play-off games. Data came from an online questionnaire generating 1,166 responses. Findings – The authors find that: first, identification with a team mediates the effects of brand personality on attitudinal loyalty and behavioral loyalty; second, brand personality is a stronger driver of identification among newer fans; and third, brand personality has a stronger influence on both attitudinal and behavioral loyalty among newer fans. These findings stress the importance of sports brand’s personality in driving fans’ identification with the team and their loyalty to it. Originality/value – The study develops and tests a new conceptual model on consumer loyalty in the sports team context. The authors shed light on how sports team personality affects its fans’ identification with the team and the formation of fan loyalty, from the perspective of fans’ relationship length.

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Uncovering hockey fans' motivations behind their derogatory behaviors and how these motives predict psychological well-being and quality of social identity

Cited by 13 publications

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Social identities promote well‐being because they satisfy global psychological needs

Social identities promote well‐being because they satisfy global psychological needs

The interplay of individual differences, norms, and group identification in predicting prejudiced behavior in online video game interactions

How do brand personality, identification, and relationship length drive loyalty in sports?

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