Having a lot of a good thing: Multiple important group memberships as a source of self-esteem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Jetten, Jolanda ^a   Branscombe, Nyla R ^b   Haslam, S Alexander ^a   Haslam, Catherine ^a   Cruwys, Tegan ^a   Jones, Janelle M ^c   Cui, Lijuan ^d   Dingle, Genevieve ^a   Liu, James ^e   Murphy, Sean ^a   Thai, Anh ^a   Walter, Zoe ^a   Zhang, Airong ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MODEL; RESIDENT; SELF ESTEEM; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84959268631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124609     Document Type: Article

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