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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Social Identity Approach"”.
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A Social Identity Approach to Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling condition, with prevalence rates increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. SAD is defined as a fear of negative evaluation, causing psychological distress and impairment as well as significant economic costs. There are a number of evidence-based …
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A Social Identity Approach to Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling condition, with prevalence rates increasing since the COVID-19 pandemic. SAD is defined as a fear of negative evaluation, causing psychological distress and impairment as well as significant economic costs. There are a number of evidence-based …
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A social identity approach to understanding physical activity.
… a global physical inactivity crisis, prevailing approaches to understanding physical activity behaviours are characterised by a predominant focus on individual-level factors (e.g., cognitions, attitudes, motivations). These approaches largely fail to account for the possibility that these …
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Scrum Framework Effects on Software Team Cohesion, Collaboration, and Motivation: A Social Identity Approach Perspective
… occurred. |A transcendental phenomenological approach was used to explore the shared implementation experiences of the practitioners. Phenomenological methods emphasize the phenomena to be explored while a transcendental approach emphasizes practitioner descriptions of their experiences. Data …
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Social identities in physical activity promotion for sedentary women
… the theoretical conceptions from a dominant social cognitive model, the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985). Subjective norm has not been a strong predictor of intention or behaviour in research on the theory of planned behavior in physical activity contexts (Symons Downs & Hausenblas, …
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Psychosocial determinants of post-traumatic stress among cancer survivors
… In this thesis, I aimed to clarify the psychosocial processes that reduce or increase post-traumatic stress after cancer. “Social support,” for instance, has often been linked to post-traumatic stress, but I describe several problems with this concept. Alternatively, inspired by the Social …
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Hostile Media Perception in the Age of Social Media: The Role of Social Identity
… a perceptual bias believed to be driven by social identity processes, partisans tend to view objective news media as hostile towards their position. As advances in digital technology increase online news use, the inherent features and communicative properties of these technologies can …
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Social identity processes involved in the acceptance and collective actions regarding large-scale energy technologies: The case of deep geothermal energy in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.
… technologies. The present study investigated social dimensions underlying public acceptance of deep geothermal energy. Adopting a social identity approach, the present research consisted of four studies. The first was a qualitative study which aimed to understand which socio-psychological …
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What does psychology contribute to the understanding of societal transformation? A discussion of motives for collective pro-environmental action
… action. Manuscripts one and two discuss the social identity approach as a psychological theory for social transformation (Tajfel, 1978; Tajfel & Turner, 1986). Manuscript one then suggests three research lines for transformation-oriented research in environmental psychology that focus on (1) …
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“You Only Have I Known”: Social Identity and the Book of Amos
… assesses how the book of Amos shapes the social identity of its audience. Chapter 1 contextualizes this project in Amos scholarship and shows the relevance of this study. Chapter 2 introduces the Social Identity Approach employed in the dissertation. Various applications of the Social …
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An Exploratory Study of Lived Experiences of Black African Highly Qualified, Highly Skilled Migrant Women’s Career Mobility in England’s Public Sector Organisations
… roles in England’s public sector organisations. Social identity, self-categorisation, and personal identity theories, fused with intersectionality, were employed as lenses for examination. Applying these lenses holistically expanded the contextual views of multiple identities interplaying as the …
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Trust building and cooperation in supervisor-subordinate relationships and work units
… 2007. One was a restaurant chain and the other a social service provider. Altogether, 285 employees and 40 supervisors were invited to participate in the survey and the final response rates were 66% and 98%, respectively. Validated measures were utilized and two-level models were used in the …
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Pauline Christ-Groups and Private Dionysian Associations : Mythical Narratives and Communal Rituals as Building Blocks of Social Identity
… mythical narratives and religious rituals in the identity formation process of Pauline Christ-groups and Greco-Roman private religious associations. The main sources used in this work are Paul’s letters and inscriptions that refer to private religious associations. Of Paul’s letters, I use his …
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"We band of brothers"? A social-identity-based study of military public affairs professional identity, organizational socialization, and collaboration
… 2010). In the present study, I applied the “social identity approach” (Hornsey, 2008, pp. 204-205) as my conceptual framework to explore the development of military public affairs professional identity through socialization of public affairs managers in joint entry-level military public …
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Academics’ Organisational Identification and Commitment: Influences of Perceptions of Organisational Support and Reputation
… and affective commitment. Underpinned by social exchange theory, the social identity approach, as well as the group engagement model, the study contributes to research that seeks to understand how these theories complement each other and provide alternative mechanisms for explaining …
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Promoting eudaimonic well-being through team identification among distant fans: The mediating role of social support
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Investigating sexual violence through a social identity lens
… of sexual violence are in part driven by social phenomena. That is, people's responses to sexual violence are driven in part by their social context, including pre-existing conceptualisations of what sexual violence is, and to whom it occurs. My PhD sought to understand this via a social …
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Investigating sexual violence through a social identity lens
… of sexual violence are in part driven by social phenomena. That is, people's responses to sexual violence are driven in part by their social context, including pre-existing conceptualisations of what sexual violence is, and to whom it occurs. My PhD sought to understand this via a social …