State Category Specific Collective Self Esteem and Intergroup Discrimination

Much of the research that has revealed that intergroup discrimination can lead to high levels of collective self-esteem (CSE) contains features that, in important respects, preclude an accurate investigation of predictions derived from social identity theory. Typically, these studies have tended to...

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Published inCurrent research in social psychology Vol. 8; no. 10; pp. 139 - 147
Main Author Hunter, John A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.01.2003
Subjects
College Students
Discrimination
Group Identity
Intergroup Relations
New Zealand
Self Esteem
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ISSN1088-7423
1088-7423

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Summary:Much of the research that has revealed that intergroup discrimination can lead to high levels of collective self-esteem (CSE) contains features that, in important respects, preclude an accurate investigation of predictions derived from social identity theory. Typically, these studies have tended to incorporate scales assessing global, trait CSE, & between-subjects designs. To overcome these problems, the present investigation incorporated measures of state, category-specific CSE using a within subjects design. Using this procedure, one hypothesis was tested. This stated that intergroup discrimination would lead to an increase in state category specific CSE. The hypothesis was supported. Participants (ie, New Zealanders) who showed intergroup discrimination against Australians (ie, by allocating more points to anonymous ingroup members than anonymous outgroup members) experienced a sharp increase in state category-specific CSE. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:1088-7423
1088-7423