Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2009 Dec;48(Pt 4):625-47. doi: 10.1348/014466608X389582. Epub 2009 Feb 19.
This paper introduces the concept of self-defining groups to explain how personal and social aspects of identity relate to each other among members of an extreme right-wing political party. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 examined how affiliation with a social group that has clear-cut, rigid norms and values affects the personal and social self-concept. Participants were members of a (self-defining) Turkish nationalist organisation (N=66) and a control group of Turkish university students (N=58). Paradoxically, high levels of national identification were associated with stronger personal identity. Study 2 used the same participant population (N=177) and manipulated self-focused attention by means of a mirror. Self-aware members reported the highest levels of identification with the nationalist organisation. Results suggest that members of this groups show no signs of 'vanishing individuality': although boundaries between personal and social identities are blurred, extremist group members retain a distinct and strengthened sense of personal identity. This raises some interesting questions for the concept of personal identity and how it can be informed by the content of one's social identity.
本文引入了自定群体的概念，以解释极右翼政党成员的个人和社会身份如何相互关联。进行了两项研究。研究 1 考察了与具有明确、刻板规范和价值观的社会群体的从属关系如何影响个人和社会的自我概念。参与者是一个（自我定义的）土耳其民族主义组织的成员（N=66）和一个土耳其大学生对照组（N=58）。矛盾的是，高度的民族认同感与更强的个人认同感相关。研究 2 使用了相同的参与者群体（N=177），并通过镜子来操纵自我关注。自我意识成员报告说，他们与民族主义组织的认同度最高。结果表明，这些群体的成员没有表现出“个性消失”的迹象：尽管个人和社会身份之间的界限变得模糊，但极端主义团体成员仍然保持着独特而强化的个人身份认同感。这为个人身份认同的概念以及如何通过社会身份的内容来了解它提出了一些有趣的问题。
