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A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
British Journal of Social Psychology ( IF 6.920 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-16 , DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12470
Svenja B Frenzel 1 , Nina M Junker 1 , Lorenzo Avanzi 2 , Aidos Bolatov 3 , S Alexander Haslam 4 , Jan A Häusser 5 , Ronit Kark 6, 7 , Ines Meyer 8 , Andreas Mojzisch 9 , Lucas Monzani 10 , Stephen Reicher 11 , Adil Samekin 12 , Valerie A Schury 5 , Niklas K Steffens 4 , Liliya Sultanova 13 , Dina Van Dijk 14 , Llewellyn E van Zyl 1, 15, 16, 17 , Rolf Van Dick 1
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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered health-related anxiety in ways that undermine peoples’ mental and physical health. Contextual factors such as living in a high-risk area might further increase the risk of health deterioration. Based on the Social Identity Approach, we argue that social identities can not only be local that are characterized by social interactions, but also be global that are characterized by a symbolic sense of togetherness and that both of these can be a basis for health. In line with these ideas, we tested how identification with one’s family and with humankind relates to stress and physical symptoms while experiencing health-related anxiety and being exposed to contextual risk factors. We tested our assumptions in a representative sample (N = 974) two-wave survey study with a 4-week time lag. The results show that anxiety at Time 1 was positively related to stress and physical symptoms at Time 2. Feeling exposed to risk factors related to lower physical health, but was unrelated to stress. Family identification and identification with humankind were both negatively associated with subsequent stress and family identification was negatively associated with subsequent physical symptoms. These findings suggest that for social identities to be beneficial for mental health, they can be embodied as well as symbolic.

中文翻译:

共同的麻烦就是减半的麻烦:在 COVID-19 大流行期间家庭认同和人类认同在福祉中的作用

COVID-19 大流行以破坏人们身心健康的方式引发了与健康相关的焦虑。生活在高风险地区等环境因素可能会进一步增加健康恶化的风险。基于社会认同方法,我们认为社会认同不仅可以是以社会互动为特征的地方性,而且可以是以象征性的团结感为特征的全球性认同,这两者都可以成为健康的基础。根据这些想法,我们测试了与家人和人类的认同如何与压力和身体症状相关,同时经历与健康相关的焦虑和暴露于环境风险因素中。我们在一个有代表性的样本中测试了我们的假设(N = 974) 具有 4 周时间滞后的两波调查研究。结果表明,时间 1 的焦虑与时间 2 的压力和身体症状呈正相关。感觉暴露于与身体健康状况降低相关的风险因素,但与压力无关。家庭认同和对人类的认同都与随后的压力呈负相关,家庭认同与随后的身体症状呈负相关。这些发现表明,要使社会身份对心理健康有益,它们既可以体现又可以象征。
更新日期:2021-06-16
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