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{"title":"Multiple Identities and Sources of Reflected Appraisals in Identity Theory","authors":"M. Gallagher, K. Marcussen, R. Serpe","doi":"10.1177/01902725221081798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725221081798","url":null,"abstract":"Identity theory assumes that individuals seek identity verification in the form of consistency between the meanings implied by perceived feedback from others (reflected appraisals) and their own self-meanings (identity standards) during social interaction. When there is a lack of identity verification (discrepancy), individuals experience negative outcomes such as psychological distress. Most adults hold multiple identities, and discrepancies in certain identities may cause more distress than others. Moreover, reflected appraisals come from various sources, and discrepancies with certain sources may be more influential than others. Yet most research on identity verification has not included multiple identities or multiple sources of reflected appraisals. We use structural equation modeling to simultaneously investigate associations between identity discrepancies with four sources of reflected appraisals (spouse, family, friends, and others in general) and distress (depressive symptoms) in a sample of 735 respondents who occupy three identities (spouse/partner, parent, and religious). We find that discrepancies in more obligatory identities and those involving reflected appraisals from more proximal sources of feedback are most consistently associated with depressive symptoms. Implications of these findings for advancing identity theory and research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46018557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hearing Like a Musician: Integrating Sensory Perception of Self into a Social Theory of Self-Reflexivity","authors":"Sarah Maslen","doi":"10.1177/01902725211071106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211071106","url":null,"abstract":"In Mead’s philosophy, we develop and present ourselves in anticipation of an audience, taking the role of other to “see” ourselves as we will be seen. But what we see when we take the position of other is not in fact what the other sees of ourselves. It is only the visible side of our experience that the other can grasp, leaving hidden our interior experiences. This article speaks to this conundrum left by Mead’s writing, presenting the training of musicians as a strategic site for showing why we need to go beyond Mead in social psychology, adding what Merleau-Ponty shows us of how we work on the invisible side of our experience. This research examines how classical music teachers work with students to deliberately transform their inner experience of their sound to align their self-perception with how others perceive them.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47375124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Belief in Meritocracy Reexamined: Scrutinizing the Role of Subjective Social Mobility","authors":"J. Mijs, Stijn Daenekindt, W. de Koster, J. van der Waal","doi":"10.1177/01902725211063818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211063818","url":null,"abstract":"Despite decreasing intergenerational mobility, strengthening the ties between family background and children’s economic outcomes, Western citizens continue to believe in meritocracy. We study how meritocratic beliefs about success relate to individuals’ social mobility experiences: Is subjective upward mobility associated with meritocratic attributions of success and downward mobility with structuralist views? Whereas previous studies addressed the relevance of individuals’ current position or objective mobility, we leverage diagonal reference models to disentangle the role of subjective mobility, origin, and destination. Surveying a representative Dutch sample (n = 1,507), we find, echoing the Thomas theorem, that if people experience social mobility as real, it is real in its consequences: subjective upward mobility is associated with stronger meritocratic beliefs, and downward mobility is associated with stronger structuralist beliefs—but has no bearing on people’s meritocracy beliefs. This helps understand the muted political response to growing inequality: a small share of upwardly mobile individuals may suffice to uphold public faith in meritocracy.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47750227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prominence–Salience Combinations and Self-Esteem: Do Magnitude and Congruity Matter?","authors":"Kelly L. Markowski, R. Serpe","doi":"10.1177/01902725211049788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211049788","url":null,"abstract":"Identity theory research shows that prominence, or identity importance, positively predicts salience or likely identity enactment. Sometimes the association is strong, indicating close matches in magnitude, whereas other times, it is weak, indicating mismatches in magnitude. We build on this work by exploring prominence–salience combinations, paying attention to how congruity and magnitude relate to role-specific self-esteem. We test two competing arguments: cognitive consistency—matches are good, mismatches are bad—and uncertainty reduction—high and low scores are clearly defined and good, medium scores are ambiguous and bad. Using data from 1,899 participants with parent (or no children) and spousal (or single) identities, results favor uncertainty reduction: matching medium prominence–salience scores are worse for self-esteem than other matching scores and often even mismatching scores. This work is important because it considers the felt and lived components of identity, advancing understanding of how identity experiences relate to well-being.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43445249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Index to Volume 84 Social Psychology Quarterly 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/01902725211065079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211065079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49454732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Divergent Mental Health Effects of Dashed Expectations and Unfulfilled Aspirations: Evidence from American Lawyers’ Careers","authors":"Ioana Sendroiu, Laura Upenieks, Markus H. Schafer","doi":"10.1177/01902725211045024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211045024","url":null,"abstract":"Considerable work has shown that optimistic future orientations can be a resource for resilience across individuals’ lives. At the same time, research has shown little downside to “shooting for the stars” and failing. Here, we bring these competing insights to the study of lawyers’ careers, investigating the relationship between mental health and failure in achieving desired career advancement. To do this, we differentiate between expectations and aspirations for the future, a conceptual distinction that has been much theorized but little tested. Using longitudinal data, we show that dashed expectations of making partner are associated with depreciated mental health outcomes, whereas a similar relationship does not exist for unfulfilled aspirations. We conclude that inasmuch as expectations are more deeply rooted in an individual’s realistic sense of their future self, failing to achieve what is expected is more psychologically damaging than failing to achieve what is simply aspired. Our findings contrast with studies of younger people that demonstrate fewer consequences for unfulfilled future orientations, and so we highlight the importance of specifying how particular future-oriented beliefs fit into distinct career and life course trajectories, for better or for worse. In the process, we contribute to the academic literatures on future orientations, work, and mental health.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44280555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dignity in Red Envelopes: Disreputable Exchange and Cultural Reproduction of Inequality in Informal Medical Payment","authors":"W. Guo, Bin Xu","doi":"10.1177/01902725211044815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211044815","url":null,"abstract":"Disreputable exchanges are morally disapproved and often legally prohibited exchanges that exacerbate and reproduce social inequality but remain ubiquitous. Although previous literature explains the phenomenon by material interests and structural relations, we propose a cultural approach based on three major conceptions of culture: culture in relations, culture in interactions, and culture in inequality. We illustrate this approach by a case study of China’s hongbao (the red envelope) exchange, a typical disreputable exchange through informal medical payment. Drawing on interviews with doctors and patients, we find that participants of the exchange mobilize items from their cultural repertoires, such as professional ethics, face, power, fairness, and affection, to redefine different situations of interactions and project positive self–images to render their problematic exchanges morally acceptable to each other. Moreover, as the participants’ responses to our vignettes show, they negatively evaluate the exchanges in general moral terms, such as equality and fairness, but culturally justify their own involvement. This discrepancy between saying and doing tends to legitimize the disreputable exchange amid enduring public outrage and institutional prohibition. These cultural processes contribute to the reproduction of unequal access to scarce health care resources. Findings of this research not only offer insights into understanding disreputable exchanges but also contribute to research on other cases of social problems in which deviant behaviors are morally and culturally justified.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65341515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to Jan Stets","authors":"Cecilia L. Ridgeway","doi":"10.1177/01902725211046562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211046562","url":null,"abstract":"It is an honor and pleasure to introduce Jan Stets, the 2020 recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award, given in recognition of her full career of distinguished scholarship in social psychology. Of course, Jan Stets needs no actual introduction to the serious scholar. She has a prolific record of widely cited articles on identity theory, published not only in the flagship journal of sociological social psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, where she has no fewer than 15 articles, but also in broader journals like the American Sociological Review. Then, there are her many influential books on emotions and identity. Here I want to highlight the characteristics of Jan Stets and her work that make her contributions to sociological social psychology so impressive and she so deserving of this award. The great project of sociological social psychology has always been to understand the reciprocal relations between social structure and individual action. Working in the distinctively sociological tradition of symbolic interactionism, Jan Stets’s scholarly contributions have intervened at a key juncture in this intellectual project. She has focused her research on identity processes as a central mechanism that links the behavior and motives of individuals to a society’s social structure. If our current climate of identitydriven politics and social divisions have taught us anything, it is that identity processes play a powerful role in social order and social change. By directing her research toward such a critical set of questions, Jan Stets set the foundation for the lasting value of her scholarly contributions. Jan Stets has built on this foundation in a distinctively valuable way by working to formulate, develop, systematically test, and extend Identity Theory. Largely through her research, Jan Stets has personally carried the project of structural symbolic interaction through to the present and given it modern, systematic specificity and prominence in sociology. She has taken Identity Theory forward by developing it within, testing and refining its core arguments, and without, by extending it to explain important social problems. These twin processes of internal development of the theory and its external application to significant social issues have always worked in tandem in her research. In some of her earliest work, for instance, Jan Stets examined the social identity of gender and how it shapes interaction among spouses in ongoing marriages, an important social issue if there ever was one. These applied studies provided early demonstrations of the selfverification principle by which identity standards motivate behavior in relationships, including efforts to control the partner, a central argument of identity theory. Out of this work on social identities like gender that are defined by social roles","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45518565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Micro, Meso, and Macro Processes in Identity Change: The 2020 Cooley-Mead Award Address","authors":"Jan E. Stets","doi":"10.1177/01902725211046563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211046563","url":null,"abstract":"I discuss how social psychologists can think about identity change as a nested phenomenon. Identity change occurs at the micro level, but it is embedded in meso and macro levels of social reality. I use changes in the religious identity in the United States as an example of how we can conceptualize identity change in this way. This approach enables us to broaden the scope of social psychological work to be more inclusive of the various social forces at all levels of social reality that impact the human processes we study.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45301505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When Does Status Transfer between People? A Crowdsourced Experiment on the Scope of Status by Association","authors":"Jon Overton","doi":"10.1177/01902725211042313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211042313","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known in social psychology that people are judged by the company they keep, but when and how does that company affect how individuals are evaluated? This article extends expectation states theory to explain associative status. The theory predicts that the status value of former coworkers will “spill over” to positively predict a person’s status position in a new task with new coworkers. A series of crowdsourced experiments finds that status spreads to a person from a former interaction partner. The status of one’s associates predicts deference behavior only when the previous and current task contexts rely on similar abilities. Meanwhile, explicitly evaluated status and performance expectations respond to the status of associates regardless of how interaction contexts are related. The present findings highlight the importance of role relationships and task contexts as moderators that regulate whether status transfers from one person to another.","PeriodicalId":48201,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychology Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47747264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}