Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism

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dc.contributor.advisorFoster, Donen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRobins, Evan Men_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-14T08:57:01Z
dc.date.available2015-07-14T08:57:01Z
dc.date.issued1992en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 127-143.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe positivity of personal and minimal group social identity was manipulated by giving subjects bogus test feedback to induce differential levels of personal status (high, low, no feedback) and group status (high, low, neutral) in 237 13-15 year olds. This investigative experimental study used a MANOVA to explore the main effects and interactions between these factors with personal self-esteem (Rosenberg,1965) and collective self-esteem (Crocker & Luhtanen,1990) on the evaluations of products by (a) the ingroup in comparison with the outgroup, (b) self in comparison with the ingroup and (c) the difference between these self and ingroup favouritism measures. It was found that subjects with high but not low collective self esteem engaged in less ingroup favouritism in comparison to self favouritism when the group made a negative contribution to identity than when it did not. This result was explained through a social identity self-enhancement and self-consistency framework. Males showed more self favouritism than females. This study did not confirm predictions of enhancement theories like Social Identity Theory (I'ajfel & Turner,1979) or research on the nature of self-esteem. Levels of self-esteem, group status and personal status had no significant effects on either self favouritism or ingroup favouritism. A-correlational study on the validity of collective self-esteem found that it was moderately correlated with Jewish identification (R.J.Brown, Condor, Mathews, Wade & Williams,1986) and Gibbons & McCoy's (1990) measures of Negative Affectivity and not correlated with subtle racism (Duckitt,1990,1991a) or Watson, Clark & Tellegen's (1988) measure of Negative Affectivity.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationRobins, E. M. (1992). <i>Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13497en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRobins, Evan M. <i>"Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13497en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRobins, E. 1992. Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Robins, Evan M AB - The positivity of personal and minimal group social identity was manipulated by giving subjects bogus test feedback to induce differential levels of personal status (high, low, no feedback) and group status (high, low, neutral) in 237 13-15 year olds. This investigative experimental study used a MANOVA to explore the main effects and interactions between these factors with personal self-esteem (Rosenberg,1965) and collective self-esteem (Crocker & Luhtanen,1990) on the evaluations of products by (a) the ingroup in comparison with the outgroup, (b) self in comparison with the ingroup and (c) the difference between these self and ingroup favouritism measures. It was found that subjects with high but not low collective self esteem engaged in less ingroup favouritism in comparison to self favouritism when the group made a negative contribution to identity than when it did not. This result was explained through a social identity self-enhancement and self-consistency framework. Males showed more self favouritism than females. This study did not confirm predictions of enhancement theories like Social Identity Theory (I'ajfel & Turner,1979) or research on the nature of self-esteem. Levels of self-esteem, group status and personal status had no significant effects on either self favouritism or ingroup favouritism. A-correlational study on the validity of collective self-esteem found that it was moderately correlated with Jewish identification (R.J.Brown, Condor, Mathews, Wade & Williams,1986) and Gibbons & McCoy's (1990) measures of Negative Affectivity and not correlated with subtle racism (Duckitt,1990,1991a) or Watson, Clark & Tellegen's (1988) measure of Negative Affectivity. DA - 1992 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1992 T1 - Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism TI - Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13497 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRobins EM. Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1992 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13497en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPsychologyen_ZA
dc.titleSocial identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritismen_ZA
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