Although Social Cure research shows the importance of family identification in one's ability to cope with stress, there remains little understanding of family responses to human rights violations. This is the first study to explore the role of family identity in the collective experience of such violations: meanings ascribed to suffering, family coping strategies, and family-based understandings of justice. Semi-structured interviews (N = 27) with Albanian dictatorship survivors were analysed using Social Identity Theory informed thematic analysis. The accounts reveal Social Cure processes at work, whereby family groups facilitated shared meaning-making, uncertainty reduction, continuity, resilience-building, collective self-esteem, and support, enhanced through common fate experiences. As well as being curative, families were contexts for Social Curse processes, as relatives shared suffering and consequences collectively, while also experiencing intergenerational injustice and trauma. Although seeking and achieving justice remain important, the preservation of family identity is one of the triumphs in these stories of suffering.

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“人民的敌人”：在侵犯人权的背景下，家庭身份作为社会治愈和诅咒动态

尽管社会治愈研究表明家庭认同对一个人应对压力的能力的重要性，但人们对家庭对侵犯人权行为的反应知之甚少。这是第一项探讨家庭认同在此类侵犯的集体经历中的作用的研究：痛苦的意义、家庭应对策略和基于家庭的正义理解。半结构化面试（N = 27) 使用社会认同理论对阿尔巴尼亚独裁幸存者进行了知情主题分析。这些描述揭示了工作中的社会治愈过程，家庭团体通过共同的命运经历促进了共同的意义制定、不确定性减少、连续性、复原力建设、集体自尊和支持。除了治疗之外，家庭还是社会诅咒过程的背景，因为亲属共同分享痛苦和后果，同时也经历代际不公正和创伤。尽管寻求和实现正义仍然很重要，但保护家庭身份是这些苦难故事中的胜利之一。