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Having a Lot of a Good Thing: Multiple Important Group Memberships as a Source of Self-Esteem
Jetten, Jolanda Branscombe, Nyla R. Haslam, S. Alexander Haslam, Catherine Cruwys, Tegan Jones, Janelle M. Cui, Lijuan Dingle, Genevieve Liu, James Murphy, Sean
Jetten, Jolanda
Branscombe, Nyla R.
Haslam, S. Alexander
Haslam, Catherine
Cruwys, Tegan
Jones, Janelle M.
Cui, Lijuan
Dingle, Genevieve
Liu, James
Murphy, Sean
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Membership in important social groups can promote a positive identity. We propose and test an identity resource model in which personal self-esteem is boosted by membership in additional important social groups. Belonging to multiple important group memberships predicts personal self-esteem in children (Study 1a), older adults (Study 1b), and former residents of a homeless shelter (Study 1c). Study 2 shows that the effects of multiple important group memberships on personal self-esteem are not reducible to number of interpersonal ties. Studies 3a and 3b provide longitudinal evidence that multiple important group memberships predict personal self-esteem over time. Studies 4 and 5 show that collective self-esteem mediates this effect, suggesting that membership in multiple important groups boosts personal self-esteem because people take pride in, and derive meaning from, important group memberships. Discussion focuses on when and why important group memberships act as a social resource that fuels personal self-esteem.
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2015-05-27
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Public Library of Science
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Schools, Children, Elderly, Interpersonal relationships, Questionnaires, Social networks, Social research, Social theory
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Jetten J, Branscombe NR, Haslam SA, Haslam C, Cruwys T, Jones JM, et al. (2015) Having a Lot of a Good Thing: Multiple Important Group Memberships as a Source of Self-Esteem. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0124609.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124609