Chen Serena, Chen Karen Y, Shaw Lindsay
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2004 Jan;86(1):77-94. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.1.77.
Three studies examined self-verification motives in relation to collective aspects of the self. Several moderators of collective self-verification were also examined--namely, the certainty with which collective self-views are held, the nature of one's ties to a source of self-verification, the salience of the collective self, and the importance of group identification. Evidence for collective self-verification emerged across all studies, particularly when collective self-views were held with high certainty (Studies 1 and 2), perceivers were somehow tied to the source of self-verification (Study 1), the collective self was salient (Study 2), and group identification was important (Study 3). To the authors' knowledge, these studies are the first to examine self-verification at the collective level of self-definition. The parallel and distinct ways in which self-verification processes may operate at different levels of self-definition are discussed.
三项研究考察了与自我的集体层面相关的自我验证动机。还考察了集体自我验证的几个调节因素，即持有集体自我观点的确定性、与自我验证来源的关系性质、集体自我的显著性以及群体认同的重要性。所有研究都出现了集体自我验证的证据，特别是当集体自我观点被高度确定地持有时（研究1和2）、感知者以某种方式与自我验证来源相关联时（研究1）、集体自我很突出时（研究2）以及群体认同很重要时（研究3）。据作者所知，这些研究是首次在自我定义的集体层面考察自我验证。本文讨论了自我验证过程在不同自我定义层面可能并行和不同的运作方式。
