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Testing the social identity relative deprivation (Sird) model of social change

The political rise of Scottish nationalism

Bibliographic Data

ID23367204
AuthorsDominic Abrams (0000-0002-2113-4572, University of Kent, corresponding author), Peter R Grant (0000-0002-7347-5758, University of Saskatchewan)
Year2012
Volume51
Issue4
Pages674-689
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0144-6665 • E-ISSN: 2044-8309
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02032.x
PMID21649666
OpenAlexW1566143469
LanguageEN
Citations received70
References cited36

We tested a social‐identity relative deprivation (SIRD) model predicting Scottish nationalist beliefs and intention to vote for the separatist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP). Data were from a survey of a large and representative sample of Scottish teenagers administered in the late 1980s. The SIRD model distinguishes effects of group‐based and personal relative deprivation, which should be independent of one another. Importantly, social change beliefs should mediate the effects of both collective relative deprivation and group identification on protest intentions (in this case intention to vote for the SNP). Egoistic relative deprivation should be the strongest predictor of feelings of depression. Using structural equation modelling, the results strongly support this model and replicate in two different cohorts.

Feeling · Group identification · Identity (music) · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Relative deprivation · Social deprivation · Social group · Social identity theory · Structural equation modeling · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology

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