School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia.
J Adolesc. 2011 Jun;34(3):555-67. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.05.012. Epub 2010 Jun 14.
This study investigated the proposition that adolescence involves significant shifts in social identity as a function of changes in social context and cognitive style. Using an experimental design, we primed either peer or gender identity with a sample of 380 early- (12-13 years), mid- (15-16 years), and late-adolescents (18-20 years) and then measured the effect of the prime on self-stereotyping and ingroup favouritism. The findings showed significant differences in social identity across adolescent groups, in that social identity effects were relatively strong in early- and late-adolescents, particularly when peer group identity rather than gender identity was salient. While these effects were consistent with the experience of change in educational social context, differences in cognitive style were only weakly related to ingroup favouritism. The implications of the findings for theory and future research on social identity during adolescence are discussed.
这项研究探讨了这样一个命题，即青少年的社会认同会随着社会环境和认知风格的变化而发生重大转变。本研究采用实验设计，用 380 名处于早期（12-13 岁）、中期（15-16 岁）和晚期（18-20 岁）青少年的样本对同伴认同或性别认同进行了激发，然后测量了这种激发对自我刻板印象和内群体偏好的影响。研究结果表明，青少年群体的社会认同存在显著差异，即社会认同效应在早期和晚期青少年中相对较强，尤其是当同伴群体认同而不是性别认同凸显时。虽然这些效应与教育社会环境变化的体验一致，但认知风格的差异与内群体偏好的关系较弱。研究结果对青少年社会认同的理论和未来研究具有启示意义。
