- Title
- Uncovering the diverse cultural bases of social identity: ingroup ties predict self-stereotyping among individualists but not among collectivists
- Creator
- Rubin, Mark; Milanov, Milen; Paolini, Stefania
- Relation
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 19, Issue 3, p. 225-234
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12137
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- On what basis do people form their social identities? To investigate this issue, the present research investigated cross-cultural differences in self-stereotyping, a key outcome of social identification. In particular, the research tested the hypothesis that in-group ties are a stronger predictor of self-stereotyping among people from individualist cultures than among people from collectivist cultures. In Study 1, university students (N = 117) completed measures of in-group ties and self-stereotyping with respect to an intimacy group (family and friends). Consistent with predictions, in-group ties significantly predicted self-stereotyping among individualists but not among collectivists. Study 2 (N = 104) found a similar pattern of results among members of the global internet community who considered either an intimacy group (their friends), a task group (their work group), or a social category (their gender). These results indicate that people in individualist cultures are more likely than those in collectivist cultures to base their social identities on in-group ties. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to self-categorization theory’s depersonalization account of social identification.
- Subject
- cross-cultural; in-group identification; in-group ties; self-stereotyping; self-categorization theory
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1314011
- Identifier
- uon:22683
- Identifier
- ISSN:1367-2223
- Language
- eng
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