scholarly journals “How can you make friends if you don't know who you are?” A qualitative examination of international students' experience informed by the Social Identity Model of Identity Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikole W.K. Ng ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
Catherine Haslam ◽  
Tegan Cruwys
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Model

scholarly journals The Importance of Social Groups for Retirement Adjustment: Evidence, Application, and Policy Implications of the Social Identity Model of Identity Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Haslam ◽  
Niklas K. Steffens ◽  
Nyla R. Branscombe ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
Tegan Cruwys ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Model

scholarly journals Social Identity in People with Multiple Sclerosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex B. Barker ◽  
Nadina B. Lincoln ◽  
Nigel Hunt ◽  
Roshan dasNair
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
Family Social Support ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Identity Model

Background: Mood disorders are highly prevalent in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). MS causes changes to a person's sense of self. The Social Identity Model of Identity Change posits that group membership can have a positive effect on mood during identity change. The family is a social group implicated in adjustment to MS. The objectives of this study were to investigate whether family identity can predict mood in people with MS and to test whether this prediction was mediated by social support and connectedness to others. Methods: This cross-sectional survey of 195 participants comprised measures of family identity, family social support, connectedness to others, and mood. Results: Family identity predicted mood both directly and indirectly through parallel mediators of family social support and connectedness to others. Conclusions: Family identity predicted mood as posited by the Social Identity Model of Identity Change. Involving the family in adjustment to MS could reduce low mood.

Life Change, Social Identity, and Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 635-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Haslam ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
Jolanda Jetten ◽  
Tegan Cruwys ◽  
Niklas K. Steffens
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Life Change ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Health Decline ◽  
The Social ◽  
Migration Trauma ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Group Memberships

Life change affects health. Research aimed at understanding the consequences of life change has primarily focused on the important roles played by stress, social support, individual differences, and broader socioeconomic factors in shaping health outcomes, most notably mental health decline. In this review we extend these accounts by exploring social identity–based determinants of adjustment to life change. We do so by drawing on social identity theorizing and, in particular, the Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC). This points to the importance of multiple, maintained, new, and compatible group memberships as determinants of people's responses and adjustment to life change. We apply this model to understand the health consequences of adjustment to life change in four diverse areas: pursuit of higher education, migration, trauma and resilience, and recovery from illness and injury. Finally, we provide direction for future research on SIMIC and the health consequences of life change.

scholarly journals Mobilising Men: Ally Identities and Collective Action in Japan and the Philippines

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle P. Ochoa ◽  
Eric Julian Manalastas ◽  
Makiko Deguchi ◽  
Winnifred R. Louis
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Group Efficacy ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Ingroup Identification ◽  
Moral Convictions

Men have an important role as allies in reducing discrimination against women. Following the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA), we examined whether men's identification with women would predict their allied collective action, alongside moral convictions, efficacy, and anger. We also examined whether identification with their own ingroup would decrease their willingness to improve women's situation. We tested the SIMCA, extended to consider ingroup identification among men, in Japan (N = 103) and the Philippines (N = 131). Consistent with the SIMCA, moral convictions and group efficacy predicted men's willingness to engage in collective action to fight discrimination against women. However, anger was not significant, and identification with the advantaged and disadvantaged groups played different roles in the two countries. We discuss the possible role of norms and legitimacy in society in explaining the pattern of results.

scholarly journals Deindividuation: From Le Bon to the social identity model of deindividuation effects

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1308104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Vilanova ◽  
Francielle Machado Beria ◽  
Ângelo Brandelli Costa ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller ◽  
Justin Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Model

scholarly journals Factors Behind the Popularity of Protest Messages on Twitter: The Case of Venezuela Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Petrov ◽  
Denis Stukal ◽  
Andrey Ahremenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Support ◽  
Efficacy Belief ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Project Participants

Based on the material of the political crisis in Venezuela in 2019, the paper studies factors behind the popularity of protest messages (tweets) on Twitter. Methodologically, the study develops the notion of SIMCA (Social Identity Model for Collective Action). The theory suggests that factors in the social environment may mobilize a person through such psychological antecedents as anger, belief in ability to achieve the desired goals (efficacy belief) and protest identification. The project participants created a database including over 5.7 million tweets, based on which three sets of the most popular messages (tweets) have been selected. The three sets were named according to psychological antecedents: a) anger, b) belief in success (including international support), and c) protest identification. The analysis of the tweets demonstrates that the belief in the success of the protest campaign has the greatest mobilizing force.

scholarly journals Is a System Motive Really Necessary to Explain the System Justification Effect? A Response to Jost (2019) and Jost, Badaan, Goudarzi, Hoffarth, and Mogami (2019)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuma Kevin Owuamalam ◽  
Mark Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Ingroup Bias ◽  
Special System ◽  
System Justification Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Identity Motives

The debate between the proponents of SIMSA and SJT does not pivot on whether system justification occurs – we all agree that system justification does occur. The issue is why it occurs? System justification theory (SJT; Jost & Banaji, 1994) assumes that system justification is motivated by a special system justification motive. In contrast, the social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA; Owuamalam, Rubin, & Spears, 2018) argues that there is insufficient conclusive evidence for this special system motive, and that system justification can be explained in terms of social identity motives, including the motivation to accurately reflect social reality and the search for a positive social identity. Here, we respond to criticisms of SIMSA, including criticisms of its social reality, ingroup bias and hope for future ingroup status explanations of system justification. We conclude that SJT theorists should decide whether system justification is oppositional to, or compatible with social identity motives, and that this dilemma could be resolved by relinquishing the theoretically problematic notion of a system justification motivation.

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