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International Journal of Social Psychology
Revista de Psicología Social
Volume 25, 2010 - Issue 2
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Percepción de continuidad e identificación grupal: implicaciones para el bienestar social

Perceived continuity and group identification: Implications for social well-being

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Pages 203-214 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

La investigación sobre los grupos en general y sobre la percepción grupal en particular ha tendido a analizar los grupos como entidades a-temporales, sin tener en cuenta su continuidad. En este trabajo se presentan tres estudios en los que se demuestra la relevancia de un nuevo constructor la ‘percepción de continuidad colectiva’ (PCC), y su relación con la identificación grupal y el bienestar social. El primer estudio muestra que la PCC correlaciona positivamente con la percepción de entitatividad grupal y con diversas medidas relacionadas con la identidad social, como la autoestima colectiva y la identificación grupal. El segundo estudio revela que la percepción de continuidad colectiva favorece el bienestar y la integración social, y que esta relación está mediada por la autoestima colectiva y la entitatividad percibida. En el tercer estudio se demuestra que la inducción de la saliencia de la propia mortalidad conduce a aumentar la percepción de duración temporal de los grupos y que, a su vez, dicha percepción aumenta la identificación grupal. En conjunto, los tres estudios confirman que la PCC es un constructo teórico relevante que tiene importantes implicaciones para el bienestar social.

Abstract

Research on groups in general and on group perceptions in particular has tended to analyse groups as a-temporal entities, rather than as temporal endurance entities. This paper presents three studies investigating the relevance of a new social psychological construct, namely ‘perceived collective continuity’ (PCC), and its relationship with group identification and social well-being. Study one shows that perceived collective continuity is positively associated with perceived group entitativity and several social identity related measures, such as collective self-esteem and ingroup identification. Study two reveals that perceived collective continuity has positive effects on social well-being and social integration, and that perceived group entitativity and collective self-esteem mediate these effects. In study three we show that mortality salience priming leads to an increase of the perception of group temporal endurance which, in turn, contributes to an increase of ingroup identification. On the whole, these three studies confirm that ‘perceived collective continuity’ is a relevant theoretical construct, which has important implications for social well-being.

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