How Are We Similar? Group Level Entitativity in Work and Social Groups

IF 3 3区 心理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Anita L. Blanchard, Andrew G. McBride, B. Ernst
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Abstract

Entitativity is essential for individuals to experience a grouping of people as a “group.” However, entitativity is primarily studied at the individual level. If it is truly a fundamental component of group outcomes and processes, it should be considered a group-level construct. We establish that group members can share entitativity perceptions. We propose that entitativity develops in work and social groups through different self-categorization processes. Social groups can take advantage of top-down processes to establish similarity of goals and characteristics. Workgroups use both top-down and bottom-up processes with differing effects on these two forms of similarity. We propose that shared entitativity affects individual level attitudes and behavior. Results support our theoretical model. Shared entitativity explains between 2% and 11% of outcome variance in workgroups and 3% to 14% of the outcome variance in social groups. Shared similarity relates to shared entitativity differently for social and workgroups. Shared entitativity is theoretically and practically important for successful groups.
我们有什么相似之处?工作和社会群体中的群体层次的实体性
实体性对于个体体验一群人作为一个“群体”是必不可少的。然而,实体性主要是在个人层面上研究的。如果它真的是群体结果和过程的基本组成部分,它应该被认为是一个群体层次的结构。我们确定群体成员可以共享实体感知。我们提出实体性在工作和社会群体中通过不同的自我分类过程发展。社会群体可以利用自上而下的过程来建立目标和特征的相似性。工作组使用自顶向下和自底向上的过程,对这两种形式的相似性有不同的影响。我们认为共享实体影响个人层面的态度和行为。结果支持我们的理论模型。在工作群体中,共有的实体性解释了2%到11%的结果差异,在社会群体中解释了3%到14%的结果差异。对于社会群体和工作群体来说,共享相似性与共享实体的关系是不同的。共享实体对于成功的团队在理论上和实践上都很重要。
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CiteScore
6.70
自引率
5.40%
发文量
37
期刊介绍: Policy: Small Group Research is an international and interdisciplinary journal presenting research, theoretical advancements, and empirically supported applications with respect to all types of small groups. Through advancing the systematic study of small groups, this journal seeks to increase communication among all who are professionally interested in group phenomena.
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