Coping With Negative Social Identity: The Case of Mexican Immigrants.
Social identity theory suggests that an individual's self-concept is shaped through group identification and positive social identities are established by favorably comparing the individual's in-group against an out-group. When unfavorable intergroup comparisons occur, individuals perceive a negativ...
| Published in: | Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 148; no. 5; pp. 553 - 576 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
October 2008
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