Identification and status revisited: the moderating role of self-enhancement and self-transcendence values.
Two studies examined the moderating role of the importance attributed to self-enhancement and self-transcendence values on the association of group status with identification. In the first study, students reported their personal value priorities, their identification with a group, and their perception of the status of that group. The more importance respondents attributed to self-enhancement and the less importance to self-transcendence, the more their identification with a group depended on the group's status. In the second study, the salience of self-enhancement and of self-transcendence values was experimentally manipulated. Identification with a group depended more on the status of that group when self-enhancement values were salient than when self-transcendence values were salient.
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The Open University of Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel. soniaro@oumail.openu.ac.il
D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D009042:Motivation; D009820:Ohio; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept; D012928:Social Desirability; D012933:Social Identification; D012945:Social Values