- Title
- Social identity theory's self-esteem hypothesis: a review and some suggestions for clarification
- Creator
- Rubin, Mark; Hewstone, Miles
- Relation
- Personality and Social Psychology Review Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 40-62
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0201_3
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1998
- Description
- Distinctions are made between global and specific, personal and social, and trait and state self-esteem, and these are used to structure a review of over 40 studies concerning social identity theory's hypothesis that (a) intergroup discrimination elevates self-esteem and (b) low self-esteem motivates discrimination. It is observed that researchers have tended to employ measures of global personal trait self-esteem in their investigations of this self-esteem hypothesis, and it is argued that measures of specific social state self-esteem are more consistent with social identity theory's assumptions. Although no convincing evidence is found for the self-esteem hypothesis in its full and unqualified form, it is argued that this is due to a lack of specificity in its formulation and it is suggested that a more qualified and specific version of the hypothesis may be more appropriate.
- Subject
- self-esteem; social identity theory; discrimination; social discrimination
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/930907
- Identifier
- uon:10957
- Identifier
- ISSN:1088-8683
- Rights
- The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol 2 / Issue 1, February 1998 by SAGE Publications Ltd. / SAGE Publications, Inc., All rights reserved. © 1998
- Language
- eng
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