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Khan, SS, Hopkins, N, Reicher, S, Tewari, S, Srinivasan, N and Stevenson, C (2014) Shared identity predicts enhanced health at a mass gathering. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18 (4). pp. 504-522.

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Abstract

Identifying with a group can impact (positively) upon group members’ health. This can be explained (in part) through the social relations that a shared identity allows. We investigated the relationship between a shared identity and health in a longitudinal study of a month-long pilgrimage in north India. Questionnaire data (N = 416) showed that self-reported health (measured before, during, and after the event) was better at the event than before, and although it reduced on returning home, it remained higher than before the event. This trajectory was predicted by data concerning pilgrims’ perceptions of a shared identity with other pilgrims at the event. We also found evidence that a shared identity amongst pilgrims had an indirect effect on changes in self-assessed health via the belief one had closer relations with one’s fellow pilgrims. We discuss the implications of these data for our understandings of the role of shared identity in social relations and health.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published online 17 December 2014 before print.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	mass gatherings, self-assessed health, shared identity, social relationships,
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User:	Symplectic
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2015 11:33
Last Modified:	15 May 2019 09:01
URI:	https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/274

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