Eshel Yohanan, Kimhi Shaul, Marciano Hadas, Adini Bruria
Stress and Resilience Research Center, Tel-Hai College, Tel Hai, Israel.
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2023 Apr 3;14:1154659. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1154659. eCollection 2023.
The present study investigates the role of perceived partial social belonging (PPSB) in determining societal and individual resilience and positive and negative coping indicators. It is assumed that most people aspire to belong and be integrated into their society. A sense of only partial belonging is therefore distressing for them.
Two hypotheses are examined in the current study: (a) A higher level of PPSB will predict a lower level of resilience and a higher level of psychological symptoms. (b) PPSB will mediate the associations between three stress-evoking demographic characteristics (younger age, low income, and gender) and the lower psychological resilience and higher distress associated with these demographic characteristics. These hypotheses were examined using a sample of the Israeli Jewish public ( = 1,502) who responded to an anonymous questionnaire about the investigated issues. The data were collected by an internet panel company possessing a database of more than 65,000 residents, representing the varied components of the Israeli society.
The findings supported our hypotheses: (a) PPSB negatively predicted societal and individual resilience and hope and positively predicted distress symptoms and sense of danger. (b) PPSB mediated the effects of the investigated demographic variables on these psychological variables.
These results are discussed in association with the concept of belonging competencies. Our findings display that being unsure about one's belonging to a desired social group, has a major role in increasing psychological distress and sense of danger and in reducing hope and both individual and societal resilience.
本研究调查了感知到的部分社会归属感（PPSB）在决定社会和个人复原力以及积极和消极应对指标方面的作用。假定大多数人渴望归属并融入他们的社会。因此，仅有部分归属感的感觉对他们来说是痛苦的。
本研究检验了两个假设：（a）较高水平的PPSB将预测较低水平的复原力和较高水平的心理症状。（b）PPSB将介导三种引发压力的人口统计学特征（年龄较小、低收入和性别）与与这些人口统计学特征相关的较低心理复原力和较高痛苦之间的关联。使用以色列犹太公众样本（n = 1502）对这些假设进行了检验，他们对一份关于所调查问题的匿名问卷做出了回应。数据由一家拥有超过65000名居民数据库的互联网面板公司收集，该数据库代表了以色列社会的不同组成部分。
研究结果支持了我们的假设：（a）PPSB对社会和个人复原力以及希望有负向预测作用，对痛苦症状和危险感有正向预测作用。（b）PPSB介导了所调查的人口统计学变量对这些心理变量的影响。
结合归属能力的概念对这些结果进行了讨论。我们的研究结果表明，对自己是否属于一个期望的社会群体不确定在增加心理痛苦和危险感以及降低希望和个人及社会复原力方面起着重要作用。
