Nottingham Trent University, UK.
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Appl Psychol Health Well Being. 2018 Jul;10(2):330-344. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12125. Epub 2018 Apr 6.
A growing body of literature has highlighted the relationship between group identification (a subjective sense of belonging to one's social group, coupled with a subjective sense of commonality with the group's members) and well-being. However, little of this work is longitudinal, and few studies address reciprocal causality or control for intensity of contact with fellow group members.
We investigated the effect of university identification on satisfaction with life (SWL) over time (and vice versa) in 216 Spanish undergraduates, with seven months between T1 and T2.
While greater university identification T1 predicted higher SWL T2, SWL T1 did not predict university identification T2. University contact T1 was unrelated to SWL T2.
These results show that university identification impacts positively on SWL over time (rather than SWL impacting positively on university identification over time), and this is not reducible to the effects exerted by university contact. The implications for those who work with students are discussed.
越来越多的文献强调了群体认同（对自己所属社会群体的主观归属感，加上与群体成员的主观同质性）与幸福感之间的关系。然而，这项工作很少是纵向的，也很少有研究涉及互惠因果关系或控制与同伴群体成员的接触强度。
我们在 216 名西班牙本科生中调查了大学认同对生活满意度（SWL）随时间的影响（反之亦然），T1 和 T2 之间相隔七个月。
虽然 T1 时更大的大学认同预测 T2 时更高的 SWL，但 T1 时的 SWL 并不预测 T2 时的大学认同。T1 时的大学接触与 T2 时的 SWL 无关。
这些结果表明，大学认同对 SWL 的影响是随着时间的推移而正向的（而不是 SWL 随着时间的推移对大学认同产生正向影响），这不能归结为大学接触所产生的影响。讨论了这些结果对与学生一起工作的人的意义。
