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- Authors
- Supervisors
- Yzerbyt, Vincent
- Abstract
- (en) This thesis deals with the cognitive strategies that discriminated individuals use to shield themselves from the aversive effects of social discrimination. More especially, we are interested in group-linked cognitions which are specific to the experience of discrimination, namely identification, perception of group discrimination, entitativity, social support (or solidarity) and the belief in collective action. In the theoretical part, we spend some time defining our concepts. We first distinguish personal discrimination from other related concepts, like relative deprivation, status in social identity theory or stigmatization. We then review the broad literature on the relationship between perceived personal discrimination and well-being. To conclude this first part, we underline the evidence that links group cognitions (identification, group discrimination, entitativity ), perceived personal discrimination and well-being. This first part is only available in French. In the empirical part (in English), we present five studies that gather evidence for the protective properties of group cognitions, with different social categories, among them women, African immigrants and junior nurses, in laboratory (chapters 1 and 2) or natural settings (chapters 3, 4 & 5). We also contrast cross-sectional (chapter 4) and longitudinal data (chapter 5) in order to investigate causality concerns. We conclude our work by stressing the importance of considering group cognitions in relationship to specific groups, and not as a panacea that would be applicable and protective for every single discriminated individual in the same way. We further emphasize the necessity of treating group and personal discrimination as two distinct phenomena, as well as the importance of considering identification as a multi-facetted construct.
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Seron, E. (2006). Together we stand : group cognitions as strategies to deflect the negative impact of discrimination. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/129730