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A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Svenja B. FrenzelDepartment of Social Psychology Goethe University Frankfurt GermanyNina M. JunkerDepartment of Social Psychology Goethe University Frankfurt GermanyLorenzo AvanziDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science University of Trento ItalyAidos BolatovDepartment of Biochemistry Astana Medical University Nur‐Sultan KazakhstanS. Alexander HaslamSchool of Psychology University of Queensland Brisbane AustraliaJan A. HäusserDepartment of Social Psychology Justus‐Liebig‐University Giessen GermanyRonit KarkDepartment of Psychology Bar‐Ilan University Ramat Gan IsraelInes MeyerSchool of Management Studies University of Cape Town South AfricaAndreas MojzischDepartment of Psychology University Hildesheim GermanyLucas MonzaniIvey Business School University of Western Ontario London CanadaStephen ReicherSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience University of St Andrews UKAdil SamekinDepartment of Psychology of Religion and Pedagogy International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan Tashkent UzbekistanValerie A. SchuryDepartment of Social Psychology Justus‐Liebig‐University Giessen GermanyNiklas K. SteffensSchool of Psychology University of Queensland Brisbane AustraliaLiliya SultanovaDepartment of Psychology Branch of Moscow State University Named for M.V. Lomonosov in Tashkent UzbekistanDina Van DijkDepartment of Health Systems Management Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev Beersheba IsraelLlewellyn E. van ZylDepartment of HRM University of Twente Enschede The NetherlandsRolf van DickDepartment of Social Psychology Goethe University Frankfurt Germany

British Journal of Social Psychologyjournal2021en

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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered health-related anxiety in ways that undermine peoples' mental and physical health. Contextual factors such as living in a high-risk area might further increase the risk of health deterioration. Based on the Social Identity Approach, we argue that social identities can not only be local that are characterized by social interactions, but also be global that are characterized by a symbolic sense of togetherness and that both of these can be a basis for health. In line with these ideas, we tested how identification with one's family and with humankind relates to stress and physical symptoms while experiencing health-related anxiety and being exposed to contextual risk factors. We tested our assumptions in a representative sample (N = 974) two-wave survey study with a 4-week time lag. The results show that anxiety at Time 1 was positively related to stress and physical symptoms at Time 2. Feeling exposed to risk factors related to lower physical health, but was unrelated to stress. Family identification and identification with humankind were both negatively associated with subsequent stress and family identification was negatively associated with subsequent physical symptoms. These findings suggest that for social identities to be beneficial for mental health, they can be embodied as well as symbolic.

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COVID-19 and Mental Health Cultural Differences and Values Social and Intergroup Psychology

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DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12470

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