Jones, Sian; Manstead, A. S. R. and Livingstone, A. G.. 2011. Fair-Weather or Foul-Weather Friends? Group Identification and Children's Responses to Bullying. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(4), pp. 414-420. ISSN 1948-5506 [Article]

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Research with adults shows that negative ingroup behavior can affect identification with the group, but also that the way in which members respond to negative events is moderated by prior levels of identification. Research with children shows that how strongly they identify with a group influences how they react to group-level bullying. The authors integrate these findings by examining how a bullying incident affects children’s group identification. Children aged 7–8 and 10–11 years were randomly assigned to either a perpetrator group or a target group. They read a scenario describing a target group member being bullied by members of the perpetrator group. The perpetrator group had a norm of behaving either kindly or unkindly to other children. How strongly children in the perpetrator group identified with their group was influenced by group norm and by initial in-group identification. Identification was higher when the group was normatively kind rather than unkind, but only among children whose initial identification was high.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550611425105
Keywords:	bullying,social identity, development, identity management,group-based emotions, norms, pride, anger shame, guilt, action, tendencies
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 1 November 2011 Published
Item ID:	15282
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2015 22:04
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2017 09:16
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/15282

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