The Identity Management And Coping Strategies Of Stereotype Threat Of Migrant Workers

The social identity problem of rural-to-urban migrant workers have long been the focus of scholars in correlative domains.Due to the distinctive dual institution of countryside and city of our state,there are great contradictions and conflicts between institution division and psychological attachment of the migrant workers.Researchers advance many kinds of theory model to explore the social identity of migrant workers,but unfortunately,there are so many problems in those models.such as lacking theory foundation,participants selecting deviation,improper research methods,lacking subjective researches and so on, that scientific and systematical discusses are lacked.Based on social identity theory and stereotype threat theory, using rural-to-urban migrant workers in Tianjin,the present research fully discusses and operates the definitions of social identity,rural-to-urban migrant workers.and stereotype threat, and investigates the migrant workers’social identity management and the coping strategies of stereotype threat to their group by a serial studies.The general aim of the study is to form a significative research paradigm,and find believable and available results.The results of the present study indicate:The "rural-to-urban migrant workers" isn’t a highly homogeneous and stable group in social psychological level,there are distinctly layered structures and differentiating identity tendency inside the group(study one);The first and second generation rural-to-urban migrant workers identifys countryman group more than citizen group,but the two migrant worker groups have different identity tendency and expectation,at the same time the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers living in city long term have "dual-identity" state(study two);When facing stereotype threat to their group,the rural-to-urban migrant workers tend to use different forms’ denying strategies to cope with the negative effects of the threat(study three);Setting up positive ingroup role model can help rural-to-urban migrant workers cope with stereotype threat effectly,but the deservingness of the success of role model have no influence to the effect of role model(study four).