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Identification and Status Revisited: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement and Self-Transcendence Values

Sonia Roccas

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin June 1, 2003 DOI: 10.1177/0146167203029006005 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Two studies: correlational and experimental Peer reviewed
Population Students
Citations 92
Key findings The more importance attributed to self-enhancement and the less to self-transcendence, the more identification with a group depended on the group's status.

Abstract

Two studies examined the moderating role of the importance attributed to self-enhancement and self-transcendence values on the association of group status with identification. In the first study, students reported their personal value priorities, their identification with a group, and their perception of the status of that group. The more importance respondents attributed to self-enhancement and the less importance to self-transcendence, the more their identification with a group depended on the group's status. In the second study, the salience of self-enhancement and of self-transcendence values was experimentally manipulated. Identification with a group depended more on the status of that group when self-enhancement values were salient than when self-transcendence values were salient.