Social categorization processes as dependent on status differences between groups: A step into adolescents' peer‐groups

Kirchler, Erich; Palmonari, Augusto; Pombeni, Maria Luisa

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2420240503

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“…Non‐smokers appeared as likely as smokers to refer to the sharing of cigarettes when attempting to explain why they chose to smoke or not in any given situation. The perception that smoking defined certain peer groups, reciprocal activities associated with smoking, and negative stereotyping of both the smoking and non‐smoking out‐groups, are likely to have increased perceived in‐group similarity and out‐group differences, and in so doing, enabled members of the smoking in‐group to feel more positive about themselves (Kirchler et al , 1994; Tarrant, North, et al , 2001). Taken together, the data imply that young people use smoking as a way in which to make social distinctions that enhance social identity.…”

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“…Self‐categorization theory (SCT; Deschamps, 1982; Tajfel, 1981) extends SIT and seeks to explain the relationship between self and social identity. According to SCT, people accentuate intragroup similarity and intergroup differences through a process of self‐categorization (Kirchler, Pulminari, & Pombeni, 1994). Individuals who share a common social or group identity discriminate in favour of the group to which they perceive themselves to belong, whilst discriminating against the perceived corresponding out‐group.…”

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“…A substantial body of previous research has adopted the minimal group approach for the study of social identity (Harris et al, 2000;Haslam et al, 1998;Heaven, Caputi, Trivellion-Scott, & Swinton, 2000;Kirchler et al, 1994;Reynolds et al, 2000;Reynolds, Turner, Haslam, & Ryan, 2001;Tarrant, North, Edridge, et al, 2001;. Much of this research has sampled university students and has taken place within the premises of educational establishments, bringing into question the degree to which it is possible to generalize from the results of such studies (Reynolds et al, 2000).…”

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Smoking and peer groups: Results from a longitudinal qualitative study of young people in Northern Ireland

Stewart-Knox

Sittlington

Rugkåsa

et al. 2005

British J Social Psychol

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Previous research has indicated that young people are under considerable social pressure to take up smoking. This study has therefore sought to explore and better understand the mechanisms through which peer-related social factors operate to encourage young people to smoke. Individual qualitative interviews were held with adolescent children aged 11-12 years (N = 102) within youth clubs based in economically deprived areas of Northern Ireland, and then followed up on two occasions during the subsequent 3 years (N = 51/39). The data implied that, although peers influence smoking uptake, this seldom happens through direct persuasion, but rather as the result of the young person striving to conform to the normative behaviour of the peer group with which they identify. The findings are consistent with social identity theory and self-categorization theory in that for both smoking and nonsmoking 14-year-olds smoking activity appears to provide a means through which to define social groups, to accentuate similarity within groups and differences between groups. In-group favouritism was expressed in the sharing of cigarettes within the in-group and in the negative stereotyping of out-group members. There was some evidence that group affiliation may be negotiated differently for boys and girls. These findings imply that successful intervention needs to reconsider the normative processes that encourage young people to smoke.

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Smoking and peer groups: Results from a longitudinal qualitative study of young people in Northern Ireland

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Sittlington

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“…Based on the semantic space approach ( Hart et al, 1997 ), the location of self-representations in individuals’ semantic space is based on the similarity of the self-representations’ descriptors or attributes ( Hart et al, 1997 ; Higgins et al, 1985 ). Thus, discrepancy was operationalized as Euclidean distance ( Hafdahl, Panter, Gramzow, Sedikides, & Insko, 2000 ; Kirchler, Palmonari, & Pombeni, 1994 ) between descriptors of the actual and future self and using the Pythagorean Theorem (square root of the summed squared differences between each item/adjective pair). A value of 0 refers identical description of actual and future self, higher values refers to higher discrepancy between them.…”

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Self representations and music performance anxiety: A study with professional and amateur musicians

2018

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Individual, social and situational factors might play an important role on the experience of anxiety during musical performances. The present research focused on the relationship between self-representations, including musical self, and performance anxiety among a sample of Italian professional and amateur musicians (N = 100; age, M = 23.40, 50% females). We predicted that higher self-discrepancies (actual vs. future self) would be associated with higher performance anxiety in a musical setting (vs. a non musical one), via musical self, and only in professional musicians. The results confirmed our hypothesis. Higher discrepancies between actual and future self-representations were positively associated with higher performance anxiety levels via the musical self only in participants who play instruments at a professional level. Furthermore, musical self influenced performance anxiety levels in a music related setting (i.e., a concert) but not in a non musical one (i.e., an exam).

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“…1978) theoretical commitment to study social identity 'subjectively' (in terms of the understanding of social actors themselves) rather than 'objectively' (by imposing the researchers' own frame of reference). For this reason, field researchers often attempt to check their assumptions concerning the operation of social identities by asking some of the social actors direct questions concerning the nature and strength of their group identification (see Kirchler, Palmonari & Pombeni, 1994, for a recent example).…”

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Social identities in talk: Speakers' own orientations

Antaki

Condor

Levine

1996

British J Social Psychol

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What happens if one treats social identity as a flexible resource in conversational interaction? Close attention to the sequencing of talk suggests that speakers' identities are much more subtle than simple pre‐given category labels suggest, and that they change rapidly as a function of the ephemeral (but socially consequential) demands of the situation. Were a psychologist to have sampled the interaction only at one given point, they would have seen a participant using, or being attributed with, only one identity; but we show that speakers use, and attribute each other with, a variety of different identities as their business progresses. In so doing, the speakers can be seen not only to avow contradictory identities but also to invoke both group distinctiveness and similarity—and neither of these strategies are easy to square with social psychological theories of identity. We put what we find in this particular case study into the debate between, on the one hand, ethnomethodological preference for working from participants' own orientations to identity and, on the other hand, social psychological research practices which tend to privilege analytically given social categories. At the very least, we argue, the social psychological approach can be enriched by attending more to identity as a matter of situated description and less as a matter of perceptuo‐cognitive processing.

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Social categorization processes as dependent on status differences between groups: A step into adolescents' peer‐groups

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Smoking and peer groups: Results from a longitudinal qualitative study of young people in Northern Ireland

Smoking and peer groups: Results from a longitudinal qualitative study of young people in Northern Ireland

Self representations and music performance anxiety: A study with professional and amateur musicians

Social identities in talk: Speakers' own orientations

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