Colin Haslam
Biographic Data
| ID | 286607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Haslam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Haslam |
| SIGNATURE | HASLAM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0124-9601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1046 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Detection of social connectedness in everyday life via multimodal lifelogging data
First study to identify physiological correlates of social disconnection in the real-world. • Detected mood-related general social connectedness using wearable devices. • Developed a social density estimation model of people within a 5m vicinity of participants. • Detected social connectedness to people nearby. • Classification models detected correlates of social connection using physiological features from wearable devices. Loneliness, low mood…
Problem space exploration for wicked psychosocial problems: Insights from two cases
It’s the Social Aspect of Your Life That Makes You Well”—Acceptability of the G roups 4 H ealth (G4H) Program for Participants With Chronic Disease
Loneliness is a health concern for individuals with chronic disease. Unlike most loneliness interventions that connect people to existing groups, the G roups 4 H ealth (G4H) program builds individuals’ skills to create and sustain meaningful connections. We examine the acceptability of G4H among individuals with chronic disease, focusing on factors facilitating and hindering program completion. Twenty-eight participants took part in either focus …
From Theory to Practice: Developing a Taxonomy of Identity Leadership Behaviours for Group Therapists
Group therapy is an effective treatment for a range of common mental health conditions. However, limited research has examined specific behaviours that therapists can engage in to help maximise and enhance the benefits of group therapy. We sought to address this by developing a taxonomy of therapist behaviours informed by identity leadership theory, a theoretical framework that has shown promise in helping to understand effective group facilitati…
Tackling Loneliness, Ineffective Social Support, and Mental Ill‐Health Among People With Higher Weight
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: People with higher weight are at greater risk of experiencing loneliness and mental ill-health, in part due to challenging social networks that can be unsupportive of efforts to engage in positive health behaviours and a source of weight-based stigma and discrimination. Targeting this issue is a manualised intervention, Groups 4 Health (G4H), that helps people to optimise social connectedness and group-based belonging f…
I'm Very Lucky Because This Is Even Better: The Role of Social Identity Revitalisation in Recovery From Disaster
Evidence shows that meaningful social connections and social identities following trauma can support positive post‐trauma appraisals because they provide psychosocial resources needed for recovery. However, access to these resources is influenced by a process of social identity revitalisation— a change in the value and meaningfulness of these relationships and social identities. This study used a qualitative methodology to explore these social pr…
(Re‐)conceptualising Post‐Traumatic Growth: A Social Identity‐Informed Approach
Traditional models of post‐traumatic growth (PTG) focus mostly on the role of individual processes in its development, often at the cost of understanding processes other than individual‐level factors that can shape positive post‐trauma appraisals and recovery. In this perspectives piece, we seek to address this imbalance by developing an understanding of PTG that accounts for the ways that our membership of social groups pre‐ and post‐trauma affe…
Nothing is so impactful as good theory: Evidence for the impact of the social identity approach to health on policy and practice
This research sought to evaluate the uptake of research on social identity and health among policymakers and practitioners. It also sought to identify the research outputs that have had the greatest impact and to understand the nature of their impact. Policy impact tools in Elsevier's SciVal institutional subscription were utilised in combination with Overton. We extracted all articles within the social identity approach to health topic 1996-2023…
New Groups and Post-Traumatic Growth: Experimental Evidence That Gaining Group Memberships Supports Recovery From Natural Disaster
This paper provides the first experimental test of whether two social identity model of traumatic identity change processes—(i) group membership gain, and (ii) group membership continuity—predict post-traumatic growth (PTG) and post-traumatic stress (PTS) via social identity revitalization. Participants ( N = 210, M age = 49.59 years) were adult flood survivors who were randomly allocated to one of three conditions: group membership gain, group m…
A UK national cross-sectional survey of stroke support groups: Exploring the role of social identification and group processes in reducing loneliness
Social identification with the group may be a mechanism by which stroke support groups alleviate loneliness, potentially through facilitating attendance, mutual social support and the development of collective goals. Further research should explore how these processes influence social identification in newly formed groups, where social identity has not yet been established
Tackling loneliness together: A three-tier social identity framework for social prescribing
In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the threats to health posed by loneliness. One of the main strategies that has been recommended to address this is social prescribing (SP). This typically involves general practitioners (GPs) and other health practitioners directing clients who are experiencing loneliness and related conditions to take part in social activities—typically in recreational and community contexts. However, eviden…
Brothers and sisters in arms: A mixed‐methods investigation of the roles played by military support and social identity processes in the mental health of veterans during the transition to veterancy
The transition to veterancy can be psychologically challenging, and although the military provides support, the importance of social connectedness for well‐being is largely unrecognised. The significance of this oversight is highlighted by the Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC), which conceptualises life change as social identity change. SIMIC has been applied to numerous life transitions, but not to veterancy, although there is evi…
Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health
Double jeopardy: How lower levels of support during Covid-19 exacerbated the relationship between loneliness and distress
While the relationship between loneliness and psychological distress is well documented, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are less clear. One factor known to be related to loneliness as well as psychological distress, is social support, with some studies suggesting that support–both received and provided–can serve as a mechanism to reduce the distress associated with loneliness. In this paper we examine the mediating role of both aspec…
A meta-analysis of retirement adjustment predictors
Is self always prioritised? Attenuating the ownership self-reference effect in memory
Controlled Trial Examining the Strength-Based Grit Wellbeing and Self-Regulation Program for Young People in Residential Settings for Substance Use
This cohort-controlled trial examined whether the 12-session Grit Wellbeing and Self-regulation Program enhanced the treatment outcomes of young people accessing residential alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment. Grit focuses on increasing wellbeing and reducing substance use and mental health problems by building self-regulation skills, strengths, social connections, and health behaviours. Participants were 194 (66% male, Mage 27.40) young peop…
A controlled evaluation of the effect of social prescribing programs on loneliness for adults in Queensland, Australia (protocol)
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The diversity of social connectedness experiences among older migrants in Australia
Ageing well in a foreign land: Group memberships protect older immigrants’ wellbeing through enabling social support and integration
Despite the numerous challenges of ageing in a foreign land, many older immigrants are fairly resilient and report experiencing good wellbeing. The key question that the present paper addresses is how this is achieved. Drawing on frameworks from cross-cultural and social identity literatures, the present study proposes and tests a model of serial multiple mediation that identifies possible mechanisms supporting the wellbeing of older immigrants w…
Group memberships and post-traumatic growth: How we connect determines how we recover
Life Change, Social Identity, and Health
Life change affects health. Research aimed at understanding the consequences of life change has primarily focused on the important roles played by stress, social support, individual differences, and broader socioeconomic factors in shaping health outcomes, most notably mental health decline. In this review we extend these accounts by exploring social identity–based determinants of adjustment to life change. We do so by drawing on social identity …
Identity Continuity Protects Academic Performance, Retention, and Life Satisfaction among International Students
International students transitioning to university undergo dramatic changes in social identity, with a need to adapt to a new culture, language, environment, and way of living. This paper explores the impact of this social identity change on academic performance, academic retention, mental health, and life satisfaction. The Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC) predicts that during life transitions of this form, an individual’s group m…
“There’s a Bit of a Ripple-effect”: A Social Identity Perspective on the Role of Third-Places and Aging in Place
Urban sociology highlights an important role that a city’s social infrastructure, or “third-places,” play in supporting healthy communities. Informed by social identity theorizing, this study explores when and why older adults engage with third-places and how a sense of wellbeing can be derived from their participation. Focus-group interviews were conducted with a sample of community-dwelling older adults ( N = 31) to examine the nature of one su…
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Social Identity Transition in Academic Retirement
One of the most serious challenges inherent in retirement transition is coping with social identity changes. We investigated social identity processes and the role of social engagement during retirement transition by examining the life narratives of recently retired university faculty (14 males and 5 females) from 12 different academic areas. The interviews were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The results revealed o…
Social Identity, Health and Well-Being: An Emerging Agenda for Applied Psychology
The social environment comprising communities, families, neighbourhoods, work teams, and various other forms of social group is not simply an external feature of the world that provides a context for individual behaviour.Instead these groups impact on the psychology of individuals through their capacity to be internalised as part of a person's social identity.If groups provide individuals with a sense of meaning, purpose, and belonging (i.e. a po…
Shareholder value and Financialization: Consultancy Promises, Management Moves
In the pages of the daily financial press, 'shareholder value' is a loose rhetoric. For business consultants who sell financial metrics and implementation, shareholder value is also a product and a promise that purposive management action will be rewarded. This paper begins by considering the consultant's promise and the more guarded academic responses. It then presents empirics on micro performance and the meso limits to shareholder value and ar…
Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse
Advancing the social identity approach to health and well‐being: Progressing the social cure research agenda
The health of people's body and mind is powerfully conditioned by social factors that affect their social identity. Consistent with this notion, there is a growing interest in the way that group memberships (and the social identities derived from belonging to these groups) affect health and well‐being. To the extent that group memberships provide individuals with meaning, support, and agency (i.e., a positive sense of social identity), health is …
The we's have it: Evidence for the distinctive benefits of group engagement in enhancing cognitive health in aging
Mental Health Support Groups, Stigma, and Self-Esteem: Positive and Negative Implications of Group Identification
Research into the relationship between stigmatization and well-being suggests that identification with a stigmatized group can buffer individuals from the adverse effects of stigma. In part, this is because social identification is hypothesized to provide a basis for social support which increases resistance to stigma and rejection of negative in-group stereotypes. The present research tests this model among individuals with mental health problem…
How Groups Affect Our Health and Well‐Being: The Path from Theory to Policy
Considerable evidence now exists that people can draw on social groups in order to maintain and enhance health and well‐being. We review this evidence and suggest that social identity theorizing, and its development in the social identity approach to health and well‐being, can help us to understand the way that groups, and the identities that underpin them, can promote a social cure. Specifically, we propose that social groups are important psych…
A new business model? The capital market and the new economy
Original article can be found at : http://www.informaworld.com Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis Group [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA
Ford Versus 'Fordism: The Beginning of Mass Production
This article questions the stereotypes of Fordism and mass production. It does so by demonstrating that there is a contradiction between the stereotypes and the reality of Henry Ford's manufacturing practice in production of the Model T at the Highland Park factory between 1909 and 1919. Highland Park was not an inflexible factory which combined dedicated equipment, Taylorised semi-skilled workers and a standardised product. More positively, the …
Against lean production
Social cure, what social cure? The propensity to underestimate the importance of social factors for health
Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification
Accumulation under conditions of inequality
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The hollowing out of British manufacturing and its implications for policy
This article presents new evidence of the 'hollowing out' of British manufacturing. It shows that large British firms are building up their overseas activities while the manufacturing operations which remain in Britain are increasingly sheltered and low tech. The authors argue that these developments set limits on the effectives of national industrial policy. Britain's peculiar national problems must in any case be seen as part of a larger Europe…
Multiple Social Identities Enhance Health Post-Retirement Because They Are a Basis for Giving Social Support
We examine the extent to which multiple social identities are associated with enhanced health and well-being in retirement because they provide a basis for giving and receiving social support. Results from a cross-sectional study show that retirees (N = 171) who had multiple social identities following (but not prior to) retirement report being (a) more satisfied with retirement, (b) in better health, and (c) more satisfied with life in general. …
Cultural Identity and the Expression of Depression: A Social Identity Perspective
The present research interrogates the greater tendency for Chinese people to somaticize depression relative to Westerners. Drawing from a social identity perspective, three studies were conducted examining the role that cultural norms play in symptom expression. In an initial study, we confirmed greater somatization, minimization of distress and suppression of emotional expression among Chinese participants compared with Australians (Study 1). As…
Group Ties Protect Cognitive Health by Promoting Social Identification and Social Support
Both studies provided evidence consistent with claims that group ties were especially beneficial because they cultivated social identification that provided the foundation for social support
In home or at home? How collective decision making in a new care facility enhances social interaction and wellbeing amongst older adults
Benevolent, long-term care can threaten older adults' sense of autonomy in a residential home environment. Increasing reliance on a hotel style of living has been seen to erode social identity, life satisfaction and even survival or lifespan. Drawing on evidence from both gerontological and social psychological literature, this paper examines the links between the empowerment of residents and their subsequent quality of life in the context of a m…
Do Labour Costs Really Matter
This article examines the size and significance of labour costs in modern manufacturing industry. Labour costs are doubly salient because wages are both part of the input costs of production and a way of distributing net output. The evidence on British manufacturing shows that labour accounts for less than half of production costs and two-thirds or more of net output. When profit is a relatively small residual claimed by capital, labour costs det…
The Dynamics of Acculturation Among Older Immigrants in Australia
This study explores different acculturation pathways that older immigrants follow, and the social/cultural identities they claim (or do not claim), as they live and age in Australia. Data were collected from 29 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with older immigrants (65+ years) from nine cultural backgrounds. We used participants' self-defined cultural identity to explore how these cultural identities were enacted in different contexts. Mappin…
Social identity differentiation predicts commitment to sobriety and wellbeing in residents of therapeutic communities
Multiple social groups support adjustment to retirement across cultures
Multiple group membership supports resilience and growth in response to violence and abuse
This paper examines the role that social group processes, and multiple group membership in particular, play in supporting resilience and post‐traumatic growth following the experience of violence and abuse. Drawing on social identity theorizing, we develop and test a model that (a) predicts an association between multiple group membership and positive outcomes of resilience and post‐traumatic growth, and (b) explores mechanisms, of personal contr…
Neighbourhood identification buffers the effects of (de-)gentrification and personal socioeconomic position on mental health
The Importance of Social Groups for Retirement Adjustment: Evidence, Application, and Policy Implications of the Social Identity Model of Identity Change
Previous work in the social identity tradition suggests that adjustment to significant life changes, both positive (e.g., becoming a new parent) and negative (e.g., experiencing a stroke), can be supported by access to social group networks. This is the basis for the social identity model of identity change (SIMIC), which argues that, in the context of life transitions, well‐being and adjustment are enhanced to the extent that people are able to …
Accounting for failure in the nationalised enterprises - coal, steel and cars since 1970
This paper analyses the nature of the strategic miscalculations in nationalised British coal, steel and cars since the early 1970s. Specifically, it examines the extent to which the initial strategic miscalculations were caused by an uncritical use of return on investment (ROI) techniques and the extent to which subsequent operational retreat was determined by profit and loss considerations. The general conclusion is that financial (mis)calculati…
Do Labour Costs Really Matter
This article examines the size and significance of labour costs in modern manufacturing industry. Labour costs are doubly salient because wages are both part of the input costs of production and a way of distributing net output. The evidence on British manufacturing shows that labour accounts for less than half of production costs and two-thirds or more of net output. When profit is a relatively small residual claimed by capital, labour costs det…
Bad Work Practices and Good Management Practices: The Consequences of the Extension of Managerial Control in British and Japanese Manufacturing since 1950
Although the existing academic literature on management practices contrasts national styles, it does not pose or answer key questions about the effectiveness of different approaches. Industrial relations specialists and engineers both offer highly specialized work that provides little detailed analysis of the productivity and profit results of changes in production techniques or of the interaction between the two. The applied economics literature…
The hollowing out of British manufacturing and its implications for policy
This article presents new evidence of the 'hollowing out' of British manufacturing. It shows that large British firms are building up their overseas activities while the manufacturing operations which remain in Britain are increasingly sheltered and low tech. The authors argue that these developments set limits on the effectives of national industrial policy. Britain's peculiar national problems must in any case be seen as part of a larger Europe…
How far from Japan? A case study of Japanese press shop practice and management calculation
Ford Versus 'Fordism: The Beginning of Mass Production
This article questions the stereotypes of Fordism and mass production. It does so by demonstrating that there is a contradiction between the stereotypes and the reality of Henry Ford's manufacturing practice in production of the Model T at the Highland Park factory between 1909 and 1919. Highland Park was not an inflexible factory which combined dedicated equipment, Taylorised semi-skilled workers and a standardised product. More positively, the …
Against lean production
The Myth of the Line: Ford's Production of the Model T at Highland Park, 1909–16
This article questions the myth that the moving assembly line was Ford's key productive innovation before 1918. It begins by analysing Hounshell and Lewchuk's recent historiographic accounts of Ford. The article then refutes the myth of the line by demonstrating that the myth cannot be reconciled with Ford Archive evidence on the chronology of productivity growth and the composition of costs. A concluding section sets the moving assembly line in …
Stakeholder Economy? From utility privatisation to New Labour
From social settlement to household lottery
This article proposes a new appoach to the problems of late capitalism, focused on circuits of production and consumption. It presents empirics on the growth of services in four advanced economies and examines the distributive implications in the UK. The argument is that, for the UK case, the changing composition of employment and the composition of demand feed into a vicious circle whereby the pattern of demand reinforces employment-generated in…
British Pharmaceuticals: A Cautionary Tale
British pharmaccuticals is generally represented as a successful sector which illustrates the potential of knowledge-intensive, high-valve-added activities. This article presents a revisionist account based on evidence and argument. Pharmaceuticals is a small sector which combines high-value-added and average wages to benefit capital not labour. The knowledge base in the laboratory creates imitative product with marketing then applied to capture …
The Third Way and the Jammed Economy
LIKE PLANNING IN THE 1930s or New Liberalism in the 1910s, 'The Third Way' is now being offered as a new political problematic with the potential to reconstruct problems and define new solutions which previously eluded Labour and old social democracy. In response, this polemic questions the Third Way's analysis and policy prescriptions in the area of the economy. The first section presents an analysis of how the economy is represented and concept…
Shareholder value and Financialization: Consultancy Promises, Management Moves
In the pages of the daily financial press, 'shareholder value' is a loose rhetoric. For business consultants who sell financial metrics and implementation, shareholder value is also a product and a promise that purposive management action will be rewarded. This paper begins by considering the consultant's promise and the more guarded academic responses. It then presents empirics on micro performance and the meso limits to shareholder value and ar…
Accumulation under conditions of inequality
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A new business model? The capital market and the new economy
Original article can be found at : http://www.informaworld.com Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis Group [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA
Maintaining group memberships: Social identity continuity predicts well-being after stroke
A survey study of patients recovering from stroke (N = 53) examined the extent to which belonging to multiple groups prior to stroke and the maintenance of those group memberships (as measured by the Exeter Identity Transitions Scales, EXITS) predicted well-being after stroke. Results of correlation analysis showed that life satisfaction was associated both with multiple group memberships prior to stroke and with the maintenance of group membersh…
Social Identity, Health and Well-Being: An Emerging Agenda for Applied Psychology
The social environment comprising communities, families, neighbourhoods, work teams, and various other forms of social group is not simply an external feature of the world that provides a context for individual behaviour.Instead these groups impact on the psychology of individuals through their capacity to be internalised as part of a person's social identity.If groups provide individuals with a sense of meaning, purpose, and belonging (i.e. a po…
In home or at home? How collective decision making in a new care facility enhances social interaction and wellbeing amongst older adults
Benevolent, long-term care can threaten older adults' sense of autonomy in a residential home environment. Increasing reliance on a hotel style of living has been seen to erode social identity, life satisfaction and even survival or lifespan. Drawing on evidence from both gerontological and social psychological literature, this paper examines the links between the empowerment of residents and their subsequent quality of life in the context of a m…
Mental Health Support Groups, Stigma, and Self-Esteem: Positive and Negative Implications of Group Identification
Research into the relationship between stigmatization and well-being suggests that identification with a stigmatized group can buffer individuals from the adverse effects of stigma. In part, this is because social identification is hypothesized to provide a basis for social support which increases resistance to stigma and rejection of negative in-group stereotypes. The present research tests this model among individuals with mental health problem…
I remember therefore I am, and I am therefore I remember': Exploring the contributions of episodic and semantic self-knowledge to strength of identity
The present research explores the relationship between the two components of autobiographical memory--episodic and semantic self-knowledge--and identity strength in older adults living in the community and residential care. Participants (N= 32) completed the autobiographical memory interview and measures of personal identity strength and multiple group memberships. Contrary to previous research, autobiographical memory for all time periods (child…
Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse
Depression and Social Identity: An Integrative Review
Social relationships play a key role in depression. This is apparent in its etiology, symptomatology, and effective treatment. However, there has been little consensus about the best way to conceptualize the link between depression and social relationships. Furthermore, the extensive social-psychological literature on the nature of social relationships, and in particular, research on social identity, has not been integrated with depression resear…
How Groups Affect Our Health and Well‐Being: The Path from Theory to Policy
Considerable evidence now exists that people can draw on social groups in order to maintain and enhance health and well‐being. We review this evidence and suggest that social identity theorizing, and its development in the social identity approach to health and well‐being, can help us to understand the way that groups, and the identities that underpin them, can promote a social cure. Specifically, we propose that social groups are important psych…
We can work it out: Group decision-making builds social identity and enhances the cognitive performance of care residents
Group-based interventions have been argued to slow the cognitive decline of older people residing in care by building social identification and thereby increasing motivation and engagement. The present study explored the identity-cognition association further by investigating the impact of a group decision-making intervention on cognition. Thirty-six care home residents were assigned to one of three conditions: an Intervention in which they made …
The we's have it: Evidence for the distinctive benefits of group engagement in enhancing cognitive health in aging
Psychology (56 works) · Social Psychology (46 works) · Social identity theory (33 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (32 works) · Social group (32 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Political science (26 works) · Psychiatry (24 works) · Medicine (23 works)