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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 10, 1319-1329 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167299258012
© 1999 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Perceiving and Responding to the Personal/Group Discrimination Discrepancy

Mindi D. Foster

University of North Dakota, foster{at}badlands.nodak.edu

Kimberly Matheson

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

To explain why minority group members recognize less personal than group discrimination, research has focused on cognitive processes. Although within self-categorization theory it may be argued that the discrepancy is a function of a salient social self that perceptually discounts the personal self, it can also be argued that depersonalization allows for the cognitive possibility of perceiving similar amounts of personal and group discrimination. The present study suggests that, consistent with group consciousness theories, the social self may serve to both discount as well as integrate the social self, depending on the way in which the social self is defined. Using structural equation modeling, the present study finds that defining the social self along social experiences is associated with lower personal/group discrimination discrepancy scores, which in turn are associated with greater participation in collective action. Implications for different definitions of the social self are discussed.


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