Social Identification
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Universal intervention as a protective shield against exposure to substance use: long-term outcomes and public health significance.

15 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: We examined universal preventive intervention effects on adolescents' exposure to opportunities for substance use and on illicit substance use in the long term. METHODS: Public schools (N = 22) were randomly assigned to the Iowa ... Read more...

Measuring cultural identity: validation of a modified Cortes, Rogler and Malgady Bicultural Scale in three ethnic groups in New York.

30 Aug 2009 Cultural identity is central to health. Acculturation may be formulated with a bicultural model, assessing in parallel the degree of identification with both the original and the host culture. The Cortes, Rogler and Malgady Bicultural Scale (CRM-BS) ... Read more...

'We, the Congolese, we cannot trust each other'. Trust, norms and relations among traders in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo.

30 Aug 2009 Congolese traders in Katanga claim that they cannot trust their peers, customers, and employees. Existing literature about social capital in Africa does not enhance our understanding, as it tends to consider trust as depending on the degree of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Identification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Universal intervention as a protective shield against exposure to substance use: long-term outcomes and public health significance. 15 Sep 2009
• Measuring cultural identity: validation of a modified Cortes, Rogler and Malgady Bicultural Scale in three ethnic groups in New York. 30 Aug 2009
• 'We, the Congolese, we cannot trust each other'. Trust, norms and relations among traders in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. 30 Aug 2009
• Thinking about my generation: adaptive effects of a dual age identity in later adulthood. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of organizational and professional identification on the relationship between administrators' social influence and professional employees' adoption of new work behavior. 30 Aug 2009
• When race matters: racially stigmatized others and perceiving race as a biological construction affect biracial people's daily well-being. 30 Aug 2009
• Contextual neglect, self-evaluation, and the frog-pond effect. 30 Aug 2009
• Main predictions of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior: empirical tests in two samples of young adults. 30 Jul 2009
• Maximizing quality of life in people living with epilepsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Parental mediation, online activities, and cyberbullying. 30 Jul 2009
• Cyberbullying: the new face of workplace bullying? 30 Jul 2009
• Cooperation versus competition in a mass emergency evacuation: a new laboratory simulation and a new theoretical model. 30 Jul 2009
• The role of language in ethnic identity measurement: a multitrait-multimethod approach to construct validation. 30 Jul 2009
• An integrated acculturation model of immigrants' social identity. 30 Jul 2009
• Fanning the flames of prejudice: the influence of specific incidental emotions on implicit prejudice. 30 Jul 2009
• Altering category-level beliefs: the impact of level of representation at belief formation and belief disconfirmation. 30 Jul 2009
• Balance across contexts: importance of balanced need satisfaction across various life domains. 30 Jul 2009
• The concept of ego threat in social and personality psychology: is ego threat a viable scientific construct? 29 Jul 2009
• Psychological distance and group judgments: the effect of physical distance on beliefs about common goals. 20 Jul 2009
• The metamorphosis of Narcissus: communal activation promotes relationship commitment among narcissists. 19 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Social Identification'

Definition: The process by which an aspect of self image is developed based on in-group preference or ethnocentrism and a perception of belonging to a social or cultural group. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D012933

Alternative terms: Social Identification; Social Identity; Identities, Social; Identity, Social; Social Identities; Identification, Social; Identifications, Social; Social Identifications; Group Identification; Group Identifications; Identification, Group; Identifications, Group;

Tree Number: F01.145.813.708;

History Note: 91(78); was see under SOCIAL BEHAVIOR 1978-90

Technical Notes: no qualif