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Wakefield, JRG, Sani, F, Herrera, M, Khan, SS and Dugard, P (2015) Greater family identification—but not greater contact with family members—leads to better health: evidence from a Spanish longitudinal study. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46 (4). pp. 506-513. ISSN 1099-0992

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Abstract

We investigated the effect of family identification (one's subjective sense of belonging to and commonality with the family) on self‐reported ill‐health in 206 Valencian undergraduates, with eight months between Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2). While greater family identification T1 predicted lower ill‐health T2, ill‐health T1 did not predict family identification T2. Family contact T1 (one's intensity of interaction with family) was unrelated to ill‐health T2. This shows that family identification impacts positively on health over time (rather than health impacting positively on family identification over time), and this is not reducible to effects exerted by family contact. These findings indicate that encouraging patients to engage in group activities might produce negligible health gains unless the patient identifies with the group in question.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via Wiley at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2171 Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher.
Uncontrolled Keywords: social identity, physical health, groups, social contact, social prescription
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 19 Jan 2016 09:20
Last Modified: 19 Jun 2018 08:19
URI: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/1393

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