How appraisals of an in-group's collective history shape collective identity and action: Evidence in relation to African identity.

Autor: Makanju D; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.; Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Professions, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom., Livingstone AG; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom., Sweetman J; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom., Okafor CO; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Achoro-Ndiagu, Ebonyi State, Nigeria., Attoh F; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Sep 06; Vol. 19 (9), pp. e0308727. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 06 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308727
Abstrakt: This research tested the impact of how group members appraise their collective history on in-group identification and group-based action in the African context. Across three experiments (Ns = 950; 270; and 259) with Nigerian participants, we tested whether the effect of historical representations-specifically the valence of the in-group's collective history-on in-group engagement, in turn, depends on whether that history is also appraised as subjectively important. In Study 1, findings from exploratory moderated-mediation analyses indicated that the appraised negative valence of African history was associated with an increase in identification and group-based action when African history was appraised as unimportant (history-as-contrast). Conversely, the appraised positive valence of African history was also associated with an increase in identification and group-based action when African history was also appraised as important (history-as-inspiration). Studies 2a and 2b then orthogonally manipulated the valence and subjective importance of African history. However, findings from Studies 2a and 2b did not replicate those of Study 1. Altogether, our findings suggest that the relationship between historical representations of groups and in-group identification and group-based action in the present is more complex than previously acknowledged.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Makanju et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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