PERCEIVED IN-GROUP DENSITY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT IN A SAMPLE OF NORTHERN IRISH CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS

Significance The UK government remains divided over how its relations with the EU’s customs union should be arranged after Brexit, while the EU is unimpressed by any of the suggestions put forward by London to date. This issue is central to both the future EU-UK trade relationship and the debate about how to resolve the question of the intra-Irish border. Impacts Any physical infrastructure on the Irish border would become a target for violence. A hard border could increase support for Irish reunification among Northern Irish Catholics. Different customs regimes in the EU and the United Kingdom could lead to smuggling.

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Intragroup Variability Among Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants

The Journal of Social Psychology ◽

10.3200/socp.147.3.317-319 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 147 (3) ◽

pp. 317-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Neil Ferguson ◽

Michael Gordon

Keyword(s):

Northern Irish ◽

Irish Catholics

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Memory of Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants for Violent Incidents and Their Explanations for the 1981 Hunger Strike

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1993.73.2.463 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 73 (2) ◽

pp. 463-466 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

C. F. McKeever ◽

S. Joseph ◽

J. McCormack

Keyword(s):

Hunger Strike ◽

Northern Irish ◽

Irish Catholics ◽

Violent Events

The aim of this study was to examine the memory of Northern Irish Catholics ( n = 20) and Protestants ( n = 21) for violent events which had occurred over the previous 11 years and their explanations for those events. It was predicted that Catholics would recall more events involving Catholic deaths than Protestants and that Protestants would recall more events involving Protestant deaths than Catholics. Although Catholics were as likely as Protestants to recall incidents which resulted in Protestant deaths, Protestants were less likely than Catholics to recall incidents involving Catholic deaths. Also, there were divergent explanations for the 1981 hunger strike with most Protestants attributing responsibility to factors internal to the hunger strikers and most Catholics attributing responsibility to factors external to the hunger strikers.

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Losing Control, 1958–1972

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198830573.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 148-175

Author(s):

Brendan O’Leary

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Welfare State ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Equal Rights ◽

Northern Irish ◽

Labour Government ◽

The North ◽

Irish Catholics ◽

The Uk

At the start of 1959, when Sean Lemass became Ireland’s prime minister, Northern Ireland’s UUP looked fully in control, having quickly defeated an IRA campaign that had begun in 1956 and sputtered out in 1961. Yet just over a decade later the UUP’s control collapsed under the pressure of a civil-rights movement and its consequences. How this unexpected set of events unfolded and led to renewed British direct rule is explained in this chapter. The consequences of the British welfare state are emphasized. Northern Irish Catholics demanding equal rights with British citizens proved to be the key that unwound the UUP’s system of control. The UK Labour government of 1964–70 proved more sympathetic to Northern Irish Catholics than its predecessors had been in 1945–51 for reasons that are explained in this chapter and the next. Paradoxically, improved relations between the Southern and Northern governments preceded the erosion of the UUP’s control of the North.

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Healing past wounds with more than an elastic bandage – a small-scale evaluation of attitudes and aspirations of contemporary Northern Irish Catholics

National Identities ◽

10.1080/14608944.2017.1397618 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 151-169

Author(s):

Paul Breen

Keyword(s):

Small Scale ◽

Northern Irish ◽

Scale Evaluation ◽

Irish Catholics ◽

Elastic Bandage

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Irish Students' Stereotypes About Some National and Subnational Groups Within Ireland and Great Britain

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.1979.7.1.49 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 49-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Timothy McTiernan ◽

Robert Knox

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

The Political ◽

Response Format ◽

Check List ◽

Northern Irish ◽

Free Response ◽

The Social ◽

Irish Catholics ◽

Political Border

A sample of Irish undergraduates was asked to characterize the English, Irish, Welsh, Scots, Northern Irish Catholics, Northern Irish Protestants, Southern Irish Catholics, and Southern Irish Protestants using both a check list and a free response format. Analyses of the social and personal stereotypes indicated that the English were described in different and significantly less favorable terms than the Irish. The enmities and strife in Northern Ireland were reflected in the stereotypes about the subnational Irish groups. While Catholics and Protestants, on both sides of the political border, were seen to be different from each other, these differences were overshadowed by the distinctions between the Northern and Southern groups. Both of the Northern irish targets were characterized in much less favorable and much less differentiated terms than their Southern counterparts. The implications of these findings were discussed.

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Psychological Adjustment of Melanoma Survivors

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.27.3.172 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 172-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Y. Hamama-Raz ◽

Z. Solomon

Keyword(s):

Malignant Melanoma ◽

Marital Status ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Attachment Style ◽

Cognitive Appraisal ◽

Traumatic Events ◽

Well Being ◽

Personal Resources ◽

Secure Attachment ◽

Ample Evidence

The study examines the contributions of hardiness, attachment style, and cognitive appraisal to the psychological adjustment of 300 survivors of malignant melanoma: The findings show that the survivors' adjustment is by far better predicted by their personal resources and cognitive appraisal than by their sociodemographic features (with the exception of marital status) and features of their illness. Of all the variables, their adjustment was best predicted by their attachment style, with secure attachment making for greater well-being and less distress. These findings add to the ample evidence that personal resources help persons to cope with stressful or traumatic events.

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