Research On The Mechanism Of Self-stereotyping And Self-anchoring Affecting Social Identification

Social identification is an important research area of social psychology,but as of now,no researcher can give a clear answer to the specific question of how individuals form social identification with specific internal groups.From the perspective of cognition,the formation of social identification is the process of the integration of inner group identity into self-concept,that is,the formation of self-group overlap,and the following two cognitive processing methods can promote the formation of self-group overlap: The first is self-stereotyping,and the second is self-anchoring.Although a large number of studies have explored the relationship between self-stereotyping,self-anchoring,and social identification,these studies still have some limitations.First of all,most studies are horizontal studies,which cannot accurately reveal the causal relationship between self-stereotyping and social identification,self-anchoring and social identification.Second,the influence of self-stereotyping and self-anchoring on social identification is context-dependent,but previous studies have not explored individual-level adjustment factors,and the group-level adjustment factors are not yet perfect.Finally,in the cognitive process of forming social identification self-stereotyping and self-anchoring are two coexisting cognitive processing methods.However,most previous studies have only explored the cognitive process of forming social identification from a single perspective,which is not conducive to our grasp of the essence of the phenomenon.In view of the above analysis,this study conducted a total of three studies: Study 1uses a five-month interval tracking design,at two points in time(T1: within one week of the start of the school;T2: the end of the semester),the self-stereotyping,self-anchoring and social identification of the freshman are measured simultaneously,and structural equation modeling is used to perform cross-lag analysis to reveal the causal relationship between self-stereotyping and social identification,and between self-anchoring and social identification.Study 2 starts from the individual factor of self-esteem and uses scenario experiments to investigate how self-esteem regulates the influence of self-stereotyping and self-anchoring on social identification.Study 3 starts from the group factor of social class and explores how the effect of self-stereotyping and self-anchoring on social identification is affected by the social class in which people are.The main findings are as follows:(1)Both self-anchoring and self-stereotyping can positively predict social identification,social identification can positively predict self-stereotyping,but it cannotpredict self-anchoring.(2)Self-esteem regulates the influence of self-stereotype and self-anchoring on social identification: for those with high self-esteem,there is no significant difference in the level of social identification formed by using self-anchoring or self-stereotyping;for those with low self-esteem,the use of self-stereotyping will form a higher level of social identification than self-anchoring.(3)The objective social stratum regulates the influence of self-stereotyping and self-anchoring on social identification: For those with high objective class,the use of self-stereotyping will form a higher level of social identification than the self-anchoring;for the low objective class Compared with self-stereotyping,the use of self-anchoring will form a higher level of social identification.The influence of self-stereotyping and self-anchoring on social identification is not regulated by the subjective social class.