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| Title |
Having a Lot of a Good Thing: Multiple Important Group Memberships as a Source of Self-Esteem
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0124609 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jolanda Jetten, Nyla R. Branscombe, S. Alexander Haslam, Catherine Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, Janelle M. Jones, Lijuan Cui, Genevieve Dingle, James Liu, Sean Murphy, Anh Thai, Zoe Walter, Airong Zhang |
| Abstract |
Membership in important social groups can promote a positive identity. We propose and test an identity resource model in which personal self-esteem is boosted by membership in additional important social groups. Belonging to multiple important group memberships predicts personal self-esteem in children (Study 1a), older adults (Study 1b), and former residents of a homeless shelter (Study 1c). Study 2 shows that the effects of multiple important group memberships on personal self-esteem are not reducible to number of interpersonal ties. Studies 3a and 3b provide longitudinal evidence that multiple important group memberships predict personal self-esteem over time. Studies 4 and 5 show that collective self-esteem mediates this effect, suggesting that membership in multiple important groups boosts personal self-esteem because people take pride in, and derive meaning from, important group memberships. Discussion focuses on when and why important group memberships act as a social resource that fuels personal self-esteem. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 45 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 10 | 22% |
| United States | 9 | 20% |
| Canada | 2 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Guinea | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Curaçao | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 15 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 20 | 44% |
| Scientists | 15 | 33% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 20% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 256 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 252 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 47 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 32 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 11% |
| Researcher | 20 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 6% |
| Other | 33 | 13% |
| Unknown | 79 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 102 | 40% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 3% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 22 | 9% |
| Unknown | 88 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 290. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 November 2023.
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#122,604
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#1,902
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#1,211
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#43
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Altmetric has tracked 25,837,817 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 224,660 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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