Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample

Abstract

Despite the extensive literature on relative deprivation theory, few studies have examined the longitudinal effects of individual‐ and group‐based relative deprivation (IRD and GRD, respectively) on individual‐ and group‐based outcomes, nor has research investigated the between‐person and within‐person effects of these constructs. Using two random intercept cross‐lagged panel models, we address these oversights by estimating the between‐person and average annual within‐person associations IRD and GRD have with psychological distress and collective action support in a nation‐wide longitudinal panel sample (N = 64,607). As expected, IRD and GRD were more strongly associated with psychological distress and collective action support, respectively, at the between‐person level and contemporaneously at the within‐person level. However, contrary to expectations, temporary departures in IRD and GRD predicted within‐person increases in collective action support and psychological distress, respectively. These results raise questions about how and when people respond to inequality and provide the foundations for future longitudinal research.

Procedural justice, relative deprivation, and intra-team knowledge sharing: The moderating role of group identification

“…Because individual and group deprivation often occur simultaneously ( Osborne et al, 2015b ; Lilly et al, 2022 ), there are two possible relative deprivation effects between procedural justice and intra-team knowledge sharing. Individual relative deprivation emphasizes self-concern and group relative deprivation emphasizes group concern ( Smith and Ortiz, 2002 ).…”

“…Group relative deprivation is often associated with group-based responses and can predict collective action support ( Lilly et al, 2022 ). Individuals who feel a sense of group deprivation are more inclined to engage in behaviors that support the group to which they belong ( Krogh, 1998 ; Smith and Ortiz, 2002 ).…”

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“…Specifically, we utilised a phantom/rescaling approach to standardise the scale of our random intercepts and within-person latent variables (Osborne & Little, in press). This approach is explained in detail elsewhere (see Lilly et al, 2023), but we provide a brief overview below. To estimate each random intercept, we freely estimated, but constrained to equality, the factor loadings (Hamaker and colleagues constrain the random intercept factor loadings to 1).…”

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“…We depart from Hamaker and colleagues' approach by standardizing the scales of our between-and within-person constructs at each assessment occasion (for a recent example, see Lilly et al, 2023;Osborne & Little, in press). Specifically, we freely estimate, but constrain to equality, the factor loadings for each random intercept before constraining their means and variances to 0 and 1, respectively (Hamaker and colleagues constrain the factor loadings to 1 and freely estimate the means and variances of the random intercepts).…”