Fighting inequalities in times of pandemic: The role of politicized identities and interdependent self-construal in coping with economic threat.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions encouraged social isolation and non-interaction with other people to prevent contagion. Still, the response to an impending economic crisis must be through the collective organization. In this set of pre-registered studies, we analyse two possible mechanisms of coping with collective economic threats: shared social identity and interdependent self-construction. We conducted three correlational studies during the pandemic in May-October 2020 (Study 1, N = 363; Study 2, N = 250; Study 3, N = 416). Results show that shared identity at two levels of politicization (i.e., working-class and 99% identities) and interdependent self-construal mediated the relationship between collective economic threat, intolerance towards economic ine

SUBMITTER: Del Fresno-Diaz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9349427 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature