Gay and lesbian disclosure and heterosexual identity threat: The role of heterosexual identity commitment in shaping de-stigmatization

The main research objective of this study was seeking the predictive role of closeness to parents, attachment, identity style, identity commitment, type of relationship, and having children in intimacy among young women and men. Many studies indicate differences in the level of engagement, communication, and satisfaction in relationships. The study group comprised 227 people, including 114 women (M = 29.99; SD = 4.36), and 113 men (M = 30.00; SD = 4.33). A total of 40% of the subjects were married, and the remaining 60% subjects were in informal relationships; 101 people had children and the other individuals were childless. The following instruments were used: The Miller Social Intimacy Scale, questionnaires to assess closeness and attachment, and the Identity Style Inventory. The significance of the differences and the stepwise regression analysis were performed. The results of the study demonstrated a higher level of intimacy in a relationship with a partner among women than men. The nature of a relationship does not matter to the sense of intimacy. However, closeness to parents during childhood and adolescence, the model of interpersonal relations, and the identity style are predictors of intimacy in a relationship. The study results can be used in creating preventive and educational programs focused on family life and satisfied relationships.

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The paradoxical thinking ‘sweet spot’: The role of recipients’ latitude of rejection in the effectiveness of paradoxical thinking messages targeting anti-refugee attitudes in Israel

Journal of Social and Political Psychology ◽

10.5964/jspp.v8i1.1158 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 266-283 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Boaz Hameiri ◽

Orly Idan ◽

Eden Nabet ◽

Daniel Bar-Tal ◽

Eran Halperin

Keyword(s):

Attitude Change ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Social Judgment ◽

Sweet Spot ◽

Identity Threat ◽

Social Judgment Theory ◽

African Refugees ◽

Paradoxical Thinking ◽

Refugees And Asylum Seekers

The current research examined whether for a message that is based on the paradoxical thinking principles—i.e., providing extreme, exaggerated, or even absurd views, that are congruent with the held views of the message recipients—to be effective, it needs to hit a ‘sweet spot’ and lead to a contrast effect. That is, it moderates the view of the message's recipients. In the framework of attitudes toward African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel by Israeli Jews, we found that compared to more moderate messages, an extreme, but not too extreme, message was effective in leading to unfreezing for high morally convicted recipients. The very extreme message similarly led to high levels of surprise and identity threat as the extreme message that was found to be effective. However, it was so extreme and absurd that it was rejected automatically. This was manifested in high levels of disagreement compared to all other messages, rendering it less effective compared to the extreme, paradoxical thinking, message. We discuss these findings’ practical and theoretical implications for the paradoxical thinking conceptual framework as an attitude change intervention, and for social judgment theory.

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‘They just don’t understand us’: The role of felt understanding in intergroup relations

10.31234/osf.io/2f4ch ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew G Livingstone ◽

Lucía Fernández ◽

Adrian Rothers

Keyword(s):

Intergroup Relations ◽

Critical Role ◽

Future Research ◽

Identity Threat ◽

Powerful Predictor ◽

Unique Role ◽

Intergroup Interactions ◽

Unique Predictor ◽

Ingroup Outgroup

We report five studies examining the unique role of felt understanding in intergroup relations. In intergroup terms, felt understanding is the belief that members of an outgroup understand and accept the perspectives of ingroup members, including ingroup members’ beliefs, values, experiences, and self-definition/identity. In Studies 1 (Scotland-UK relations; N = 5033) and 2 (UK-EU relations; N = 861) felt understanding consistently and strongly predicted outcomes such as trust, action intentions, and political separatism, including participants’ actual ‘Brexit’ referendum vote in Study 2. These effects were apparent even when controlling for outgroup stereotypes and meta-stereotypes. Felt understanding was a unique predictor of outgroup trust and forgiveness in Study 3 (Catholic-Protestant relations in Northern Ireland; N = 1162), and was a powerful predictor of political separatism even when controlling for specific, relational appraisals including negative interdependence and identity threat in Study 4 (Basque-Spanish relations; N = 205). Study 5 (N = 190) included a direct manipulation of felt understanding, which had predicted effects on evaluation of the outgroup and of ingroup-outgroup relations. Overall, the findings provide converging evidence for the critical role of felt understanding in intergroup relations. We discuss future research possibilities, including the emotional correlates of felt understanding, and its role in intergroup interactions.

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Feminist, Sexual, and Queer Citizenship

The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805854.013.7 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 152-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Leti Volpp

Keyword(s):

Public Domain ◽

Gay And Lesbian ◽

The Public ◽

The World ◽

Queer Citizenship

The line dividing citizens and those excluded from its promise was long shaped by the public/private dichotomy, consigning women to the private, while reserving citizenship’s sphere of the public domain for men. Feminist theorists, in criticizing this dichotomy, have examined the relationships between citizenship, dependency, and reproduction. While those considered sexually deviant have suffered exclusions from citizenship, gay and lesbian subjects in some sites currently enjoy a role as model citizens. This shift has accompanied a transition in the role of the citizen from producer of work to consumer: the privatized, self-governing, and sexually free individual is today’s prototypical citizen. This new sexual citizen is contrasted with illiberal others, who are cast outside as unfit candidates for citizenship. Queer citizenship does not provide a more encompassing vision; citizenship is not available to be queered, given how it inevitably splits the world into those who belong and those left outside.

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The Role of Identity Commitment and Selective Interaction Strategies on the Drinking Behavior of Simulated Agent Interactions

New Directions in Identity Theory and Research ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190457532.003.0009 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 239-278

Author(s):

Jason Martinez ◽

Ben G. Fitzpatrick

Keyword(s):

Drinking Behavior ◽

Identity Commitment ◽

Agent Interactions ◽

Selective Interaction

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A double-edged sword: when does identity threat affect unethical behavior?

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/jmo.2019.80 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Jinyi Zhou ◽

Jifang Dou ◽

Xiaoye (May) Wang

Keyword(s):

Unethical Behavior ◽

Mixed Design ◽

Identity Threat ◽

The Public ◽

Defensive Strategies ◽

Subject Design ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

The Relationship ◽

Practical Implications

Abstract Although individuals have different kinds of defensive strategies towards identity threat, the relationship between identity threat and unethical behavior is still unclear. In the current study, according to identity threat and self-affirmation theory, we propose and test the role of publicness of identity threat in determining whether identity threat will lead to unethical behavior. One online experiment with 197 participants (mixed design) and one laboratory experiment with 86 participants (between-subject design) are used to test our hypotheses. Our findings reveal that when individuals' identity threat is from the public sphere, it will increase their unethical behavior, but when such a threat is from the private sphere, it will reduce their unethical behavior. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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