title: Explorations In The Structure Of Psychological Identifications With Social Groups And Roles.
abstract: The structure of reference group identifications is explored in three samples of respondents: university faculty, socially active women, and practicing attorneys by means of factor analysis. Despite the wide range of respondents, the results are quite similar across the three samples, with occupation, family, religious, and racial identity components predominating. The most salient identities in all three samples consist of occupational and family reference groups. The results presented auger well for the development of a systematic theory of the relationship between identifications with social groups and roles and individual behavior.
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authors.lastname: Hooper