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Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation
Social identity is a factor that is associated with well-being and community participation. Some studies have shown that ethnic identity goes along with empowerment, and that interaction between the two leads to greater indices of well-being and community participation. However, other works suggest...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7719804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33329280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606316 |
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author | Zabala, Jon Conejero, Susana Pascual, Aitziber Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar Amutio, Alberto Torres-Gomez, Barbara Padoan De Luca, Sonia Telletxea, Saioa |
author_facet | Zabala, Jon Conejero, Susana Pascual, Aitziber Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar Amutio, Alberto Torres-Gomez, Barbara Padoan De Luca, Sonia Telletxea, Saioa |
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description | Social identity is a factor that is associated with well-being and community participation. Some studies have shown that ethnic identity goes along with empowerment, and that interaction between the two leads to greater indices of well-being and community participation. However, other works suggest a contextual circumstance (i.e., perceiving one’s own group as a minority and/or being discriminated) may condition the nature of these relations. By means of a cross-sectional study, we analyzed the relations of social identification (or identity fusion) and collective psychological empowerment with personal well-being, social well-being and community participation in a sample of Basques. A total of 748 Basques participated (63.1% women; age M = 39.28; SD = 12.13). Individuals who were highly identified or fused with Basque speakers and who were highly empowered showed higher indices of well-being (both personal and social) and of community participation than non-fused individuals with low empowerment. The results also suggest that social identification (or identity fusion) offsets the negative effects of perceiving the group as a linguistic minority. Collective psychological empowerment proved to be an especially relevant factor that needs to continue to be explored. |
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spelling | pubmed-77198042020-12-15 Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation Zabala, Jon Conejero, Susana Pascual, Aitziber Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar Amutio, Alberto Torres-Gomez, Barbara Padoan De Luca, Sonia Telletxea, Saioa Front Psychol Psychology Social identity is a factor that is associated with well-being and community participation. Some studies have shown that ethnic identity goes along with empowerment, and that interaction between the two leads to greater indices of well-being and community participation. However, other works suggest a contextual circumstance (i.e., perceiving one’s own group as a minority and/or being discriminated) may condition the nature of these relations. By means of a cross-sectional study, we analyzed the relations of social identification (or identity fusion) and collective psychological empowerment with personal well-being, social well-being and community participation in a sample of Basques. A total of 748 Basques participated (63.1% women; age M = 39.28; SD = 12.13). Individuals who were highly identified or fused with Basque speakers and who were highly empowered showed higher indices of well-being (both personal and social) and of community participation than non-fused individuals with low empowerment. The results also suggest that social identification (or identity fusion) offsets the negative effects of perceiving the group as a linguistic minority. Collective psychological empowerment proved to be an especially relevant factor that needs to continue to be explored. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7719804/ /pubmed/33329280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606316 Text en Copyright © 2020 Zabala, Conejero, Pascual, Alonso-Arbiol, Amutio, Torres-Gomez, Padoan De Luca and Telletxea. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Zabala, Jon Conejero, Susana Pascual, Aitziber Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar Amutio, Alberto Torres-Gomez, Barbara Padoan De Luca, Sonia Telletxea, Saioa Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation |
title | Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation |
title_full | Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation |
title_fullStr | Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation |
title_full_unstemmed | Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation |
title_short | Basque Ethnic Identity and Collective Empowerment: Two Key Factors in Well-Being and Community Participation |
title_sort | basque ethnic identity and collective empowerment: two key factors in well-being and community participation |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7719804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33329280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606316 |
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