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Conflict, fear and social identity in Nagaland.
- Source :
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology; Mar2015, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p43-51, 9p, 1 Diagram, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This survey study tested the effects of exposure to ethnopolitical conflict and violence and social group identification on psychosocial well-being among a sample of Nagas ( n = 280). Nagaland is located in North east India, and for decades has suffered from armed conflict and political instability. It was predicted that reported exposure to conflict would be positively associated with reported levels of fear, which in turn would decrease psychosocial well-being (assessed with the indices life satisfaction, self-esteem and general health). It was also expected that strongly identifying with being Naga would be positively related to perceived levels of social support, which in turn were predicted to be positively related to well-being. Last but not least, it was hypothesized that conflict and fear would also directly and negatively impact on levels of identification with being Naga: increased conflict-induced fear was expected to reduce the strength of the group identification. These predictions were confirmed by structural equation modelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ETHNIC groups
HYPOTHESIS
ANALYSIS of variance
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
FEAR
GROUP identity
HEALTH status indicators
PRACTICAL politics
QUESTIONNAIRES
SATISFACTION
SELF-esteem testing
SELF-perception
STATISTICS
SURVEYS
VIOLENCE
DATA analysis
SOCIAL support
WELL-being
STRUCTURAL equation modeling
PREDICTIVE validity
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13672223
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 100419996
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12076