Strategies to cope with negative social identity: Predictions by social identity theory and relative deprivation theory

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-245

  Mummendey, Amélie ^a   Kessler, Thomas ^a   Klink, Andreas ^a   Mielke, Rosemarie ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; GERMANY, EAST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEGATIVISM; POLITICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL MOBILITY;

EID: 0033069367     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.76.2.229     Document Type: Article

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