Group-based self-evaluation outside of the laboratory: effects of global versus contextual status.
An event-contingent diary methodology was used to study the impact of intergroup and intragroup factors on self-evaluations in naturally occurring groups. Participants reported their contextual group status, group identification, and self-evaluations each time they self-categorized as a group member throughout a 1-week period. Indicators of global group status, interdependence, and permeability of group boundaries also were obtained. Multilevel modeling revealed that contextual status and global status interacted to predict self-evaluations. Contextual status had a stronger relationship with self-evaluations for members of global low-status groups than for members of high-status groups. Analyses of intragroup factors revealed that greater group interdependence but not permeability of group boundaries also was associated with higher self-evaluations. The effects of both contextual status and group interdependence were mediated by group identification.
Christensen
P Niels
PN
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, CA 92182-4611, USA. niels@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
Boldry
Jennifer G
JG
Kashy
Deborah A
DA
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires