Top

Hint

Swipe to navigate through the articles of this issue

Published in:

11-09-2020

Societal Actors Shape Collective Identities of Minorities: Procedural Fairness Climate Effects on Identification, Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Health

Authors: Barbara Valcke, Alain Van Hiel, Thomas Van Roey, Bart Van De Putte, Kim Dierckx

Published in: Social Justice Research | Issue 4/2020

Abstract

In the present studies, we aimed to show that the perceived procedural fairness of societal actors’ multicultural decisions promotes ethnic minority members’ societal identification. These enhanced identification levels, in turn, contribute to better psychological health and well-being. Firstly, a vignette study in a sample of African Americans explored the effect of procedural fairness climate on identification. The second and third studies used self-report questionnaires. Study 2 consisted of a sample of sojourners in a university context, Study 3 analyzed online data through an African American sample. The studies provided evidence for the effect of procedural fairness climate on increased societal identification, which in turn mediates the fairness effect on increased well-being and psychological health. Societal actors can use procedural fairness to increase well-being when making decisions that involve ethnic minorities.

next article “Here, It’s Like You Don’t Have to Leave the Classroom to Solve a Problem”: How Restorative Justice in Schools Contributes to Students’ Individual and Collective Sense of Coherence

To get access to this content you need the following product:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 69.000 Bücher
über 500 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt 90 Tage mit der neuen Mini-Lizenz testen!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 58.000 Bücher
über 300 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt 90 Tage mit der neuen Mini-Lizenz testen!

inform now

Amiot, C. E., Sansfaçon, S., Louis, W. R., & Yelle, M. (2012). Can intergroup behaviors be emitted out of self-determined reasons? Testing the role of group norms and behavioural congruence in the internalization of discrimination and parity behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 63–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211429804. CrossRefPubMed

Aycan, Z., & Berry, J. W. (1996). Impact of employment-related experiences on immigrants’ psychological well-being and adaptation to Canada. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 28, 240–251. https://doi.org/10.1037/0008-400X.28.3.240. CrossRef

Banks, M. H., Clegg, C. W., Jackson, P. R., Kemp, N. J., Stafford, E. M., & Wall, T. D. (1980). The use of the General Health Questionnaire as an indicator of mental health in occupational studies. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 53, 187–194. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8325.1980.tb00024.x. CrossRef

Benet-Martínez, V., Lee, F., & Leu, J. (2006). Biculturalism and cognitive complexity: Expertise in cultural representations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37(4), 386–407. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022106288476. CrossRef

Berry, J. W. (1984). Cultural relations in plural societies: Alternatives to segregation and their sociopsychological implications. In N. Miller & M. B. Brewer (Eds.), Groups in contact: The psychology of desegregation (pp. 11–27). Orlando: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-497780-8.50008-5.

Berry, J. W. (1990). Psychology of acculturation. In J. Berman (Ed.), Nebraska symposium on motiviation (Vol. 37, pp. 201–234). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Berry, J. W. (1991). Understanding and managing multiculturalism: Some possible implications of research in Canada. Psychology and Developing Societies, 3, 17–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/097133369100300103. CrossRef

Berry, J. W. (2005). Acculturation: Living successfully in two cultures. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29, 697–712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2005.07.013. CrossRef

Berry, J. W., & Sabatier, C. (2011). Variations in the assessment of acculturation attitudes: Their relationships with psychological wellbeing. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 658–669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.002. CrossRef

Beugré, C. D. (2009). Exploring the neural basis of fairness: A model of neuro-organizational justice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 110(2), 129–139. CrossRef

Beugre, C. D., & Baron, R. A. (2001). Perceptions of systemic justice: The effects of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31(2), 324–339. CrossRef

Bies, R. J. (2005). Are Procedural Justice and Interactional Justice Conceptually Distinct? In J. Greenberg & J. A. Colquitt (Eds.), Handbook of organizational justice (pp. 85–112). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Blader, S. L., & Tyler, T. R. (2013). How can theories of organizational justice explain the Efl’ects of fairness? Handbook of organizational justice (pp. 329–354). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Branscombe, N. R., Schmitt, M. T., & Harvey, R. D. (1999). Perceiving pervasive discrimination among African Americans: Implications for group identification and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 135–149. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.77.1.135. CrossRef

Brewer, M. B., & Gardner, W. (1996). Who is this” We”? Levels of collective identity and self-representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.71.1.83. CrossRef

Chekola, M. G. (1975). The concept of happiness (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, 1974). Dissertation Abstracts International, 35, 4609A. (University Microfilms No. 75-655).

Colquitt, J. A., Conlon, D. E., Wesson, M. J., Porter, C. O., & Ng, K. Y. (2001). Justice at the millennium: a meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3), 425–445. CrossRef

Colquitt, J. A., & Rodell, J. B. (2011). Justice, trust, and trustworthiness: A longitudinal analysis integrating three theoretical perspectives. Academy of Management Journal, 54(6), 1183–1206. CrossRef

Cornelis, I., Van Hiel, A., & De Cremer, D. (2006). Effects of procedural fairness and leader support on interpersonal relationships among group members. Group Dynamics Theory, Research, and Practice, 10(4), 309–328. https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2699.10.4.309. CrossRef

Cropanzano, R., & Ambrose, M. L. (2001). Procedural and distributive justice are more similar than you think: A monistic perspective and a research agenda. In J. Greenberg & R. Cropanzano (Eds.), Advances in organizational justice (pp. 119–151). Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Cruwys, T., Haslam, S. A., Dingle, G. A., Haslam, C., & Jetten, J. (2014). Depression and social identity: An integrative review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 18(3), 215–238. CrossRef

De Cremer, D., Brebels, L., & Sedikides, C. (2008). Being uncertain about what? Procedural fairness effects as a function of general uncertainty and belongingness uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(6), 1520–1525. CrossRef

De Cremer, D., & Tyler, T. R. (2005). Managing group behavior: The interplay between procedural justice, sense of self, and cooperation. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 151–218. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(05)37003-1. CrossRef

Diener, E. D., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 71–75. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4901_13. CrossRefPubMed

Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., & Saguy, T. (2007). Another view of “we”: Majority and minority group perspectives on a common ingroup identity. European Review of Social Psychology, 18, 296–330. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463280701726132. CrossRef

Easterbrook, M., & Vignoles, V. L. (2012). Different groups, different motives: Identity motives underlying changes in identification with novel groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(8), 1066–1080. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212444614. CrossRefPubMed

Folger, R., & Cropanzano, R. (2001). Fairness theory: Justice as accountability. Advances in organizational justice, 1, 1–55.

Folger, R., & Konovsky, M. A. (1989). Effects of procedural and distributive justice on reactions to pay raise decisions. Academy of Management Journal, 32, 115–130. https://doi.org/10.2307/256422. CrossRef

Giamo, L. S., Schmitt, M. T., & Outten, H. R. (2012). Perceived discrimination, group identification, and life satisfaction among multiracial people: A test of the rejection-identification model. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 18(4), 319. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029729. CrossRefPubMed

Goldberg, D., & Williams, P. (2000). General health questionnaire (GHQ). Swindon, Wiltshire: nferNelson.

Gonzalez, R., & Brown, R. (2006). Dual identities in intergroup contact: Group status and size moderate the generalization of positive attitude change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 753–767. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2005.11.008. CrossRef

Haslam, C., Jetten, J., & Alexander, S. H. (2012). The social cure: Identity, health and well- being. Psychology press.

Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., Postmes, T., & Haslam, C. (2009). Social identity, health and well-being: An emerging agenda for applied psychology. Applied Psychology, 58(1), 1–23. CrossRef

Hogg, M. A., & Abrams, D. (1988). Social identifications. London: Routledge.

Hornsey, M. J., & Hogg, M. A. (2000). Subgroup relations: A comparison of mutual intergroup differentiations and common ingroup identity models of prejudice reduction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 242–256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167200264010. CrossRef

Hornsey, M. J., & Jetten, J. (2004). The individual within the group: Balancing the need to belong with the need to be different. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(3), 248–264. CrossRef

Huo, Y. J., Binning, K. R., & Molina, L. E. (2010a). Testing an integrative model of respect: Implications for social engagement and well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(2), 200–212. CrossRef

Huo, Y. J., Molina, L. E., Binning, K. R., & Funge, S. P. (2010b). Subgroup respect, social engagement, and well-being: A field study of an ethnically diverse high school. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(3), 427. CrossRef

Huo, Y. J., Smith, H. J., Tyler, T. R., & Lind, E. A. (1996). Superordinate identification, subgroup identification, and justice concerns: Is separatism the problem; is assimilation the answer? Psychological Science, 7, 40–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00664.x. CrossRef

Huo, Y. J., & Tyler, T. R. (2000). How different ethnic groups react to legal authority. Public Policy Inst of California.

Huo, Y. J., & Tyler, T. R. (2001). Ethnic diversity and the viability of organizations: The role of procedural justice in bridging differences. In Advances in organizational justice (pp. 213–244).

Hussak, L. J., & Cimpian, A. (2015). An early-emerging explanatory heuristic promotes support for the status quo. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(5), 739–752. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000033. CrossRefPubMed

Jetten, J., Haslam, C., Haslam, S. A., Dingle, G., & Jones, J. M. (2014). How groups affect our health and well-being: The path from theory to policy. Social Issues and Policy Review, 8(1), 103–130. https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12003. CrossRef

Johnson, R. E., Selenta, C., & Lord, R. G. (2006). When organizational justice and the self-concept meet: Consequences for the organization and its members. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 99, 175–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.07.005. CrossRef

Kachanoff, F. J., Taylor, D. M., Caouette, J., Khullar, T. H., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2019). The chains on all my people are the chains on me: Restrictions to collective autonomy undermine the personal autonomy and psychological well-being of group members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 141–165. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000177. CrossRefPubMed

Leach, C. W., Van Zomeren, M., Zebel, S., Vliek, M. L., Pennekamp, S. F., Doosje, B., et al. (2008). Group-level self-definition and self-investment: A hierarchical (multicomponent) model of in-group identification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 144–165. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.144. CrossRefPubMed

Leventhal, G. S. (1980). What should be done with equity theory? New approaches to the study of fairness in social relationships. In LK. Gergen, M. Greenberg, & R. Willis (Eds.), Social exchange: Advances in theory and research (pp. 27–55). New York: Plenum.

Liao, H., & Rupp, D. E. (2005). The impact of justice climate and justice orientation on work outcomes: A cross-level multifoci framework. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(2), 242. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.90.2.242. CrossRefPubMed

Lind, E. A., & Tyler, T. R. (1988). The social psychology of procedural justice. New York: Plenum. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2115-4. CrossRef

Litman, L., Robinson, J., & Abberbock, T. (2017). TurkPrime.com: A versatile crowdsourcing platform for the behavioral sciences. Behavior Research Methods, 49(2), 433–442. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0727-z. CrossRefPubMed

Lord, R. G., Brown, D. J., & Freiberg, S. J. (1999). Understanding the dynamics of leadership: The role of follower self-concepts in the leader/follower relationship. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 78, 167–203. https://doi.org/10.1006/obhd.1999.2832. CrossRefPubMed

Lyubomirsky, S., & Lepper, H. S. (1999). A measure of subjective happiness: Preliminary reliability and construct validation. Social Indicators Research, 46, 137–155. CrossRef

Marien, S., & Werner, H. (2018). Fair treatment, fair play? The relationship between fair treatment perceptions, political trust and compliant and cooperative attitudes cross-nationally. European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12271. CrossRef

Naumann, S. E., & Bennett, N. (2000). A case for procedural justice climate: Development and test of a multilevel model. Academy of Management Journal, 43, 881–889. https://doi.org/10.2307/1556416. CrossRef

Naumann, S. E., & Bennett, N. (2002). The effects of procedural justice climate on work group performance. Small Group Research, 33, 361–377. https://doi.org/10.1177/10496402033003004. CrossRef

Nguyen, A. M. D., & Benet-Martínez, V. (2007). Biculturalism unpacked: Components, measurement, individual differences, and outcomes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1(1), 101–114. CrossRef

Nguyen, A. M. D., & Benet-Martínez, V. (2013). Biculturalism and adjustment: A meta-analysis. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(1), 122–159. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00029.x. CrossRef

Onraet, E., Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Haesevoets, T., & Van Hiel, A. (2016). The happiness gap between conservatives and liberals depends on country-level threat: A worldwide multilevel study. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 11–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616662125. CrossRef

Padilla, A. M. (2006). Bicultural social development. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 28(4), 467–497. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986306294255. CrossRef

Palan, S., & Schitter, C. (2018). Prolific.ac—A subject pool for online experiments. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 17, 22–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2017.12.004. CrossRef

Phinney, J. S. (1990). Ethnic identity in adolescents and adults: Review of research. Psychological Bulletin, 108, 1–56. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.108.3.499. CrossRef

Phinney, J. S. (1992). The multigroup ethnic identity measure: A new scale for use with diverse groups. Journal of Adolescent Research, 7, 156–176. https://doi.org/10.1177/074355489272003. CrossRef

Phinney, J. S., Horenczyk, G., Liebkind, K., & Vedder, P. (2001). Ethnic identity, immigration, and well-being: An interactional perspective. Journal of Social Issues, 57, 493–510. https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-4537.00225. CrossRef

Rosseel, Y. (2012). Lavaan: An R package for structural equation modeling and more. Journal of Statistical Computing, 48(2), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v048.i02. CrossRef

Rothstein, B., & Stolle, D. (2008). The state and social capital: An institutional theory of generalized trust. Comparative politics, 40(4), 441–459. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041508X12911362383354. CrossRef

Schmitt, M. T., Spears, R., & Branscombe, N. R. (2003). Constructing a minority group identity out of shared rejection: The case of international students. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33(1), 1–12. CrossRef

Sedikides, C., & Brewer, M. B. (2001). Individual self, relational self, and collective self. Philadelphia: Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315783024. CrossRef

Shin, D. C., & Johnson, D. M. (1978). Avowed happiness as an overall assessment of the quality of life. Social Indicators Research, 5(1–4), 475–492. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00352944. CrossRef

Simon, B., Grabow, H., & Boehme, N. (2015). On the meaning of respect for sexual minorities: The case of gays and lesbians. Psychology and Sexuality, 6(4), 297–310. CrossRef

Tadmor, C. T., & Tetlock, P. E. (2006). Biculturalism: A model of the effects of second-culture exposure on acculturation and integrative complexity. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37(2), 173–190. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022105284495. CrossRef

R Core Team (2017). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. https://www.R-project.org/.

Thibaut, J. W., & Walker, L. (1975). Procedural justice: A psychological analysis. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Thomas, E. F., Amiot, C. E., Louis, W. R., & Goddard, A. (2017). Collective self-determination: How the agent of help promotes pride, well-being, and support for intergroup helping. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 662–677. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217695553. CrossRefPubMed

Tyler, T. R., & Blader, S. L. (2003). The group engagement model: Procedural justice, social identity, and cooperative behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 349–361. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_07. CrossRefPubMed

Tyler, T. R., & Lind, E. A. (1992). A relational model of authority in groups. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 115–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60283-X. CrossRef

Valcke, B., Van Hiel, A., Onraet, E. & Dierckx, K (2020). Procedural fairness enacted by societal actors increases social trust and social acceptance among ethnic minority members through the promotion of sense of societal belonging. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Van den Bos, K., & Lind, E. A. (2002). Uncertainty management by means of fairness judgments. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 34, pp. 1–60). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(02)80003-X.

Van den Bos, K, Lind, E. A., & Wilke, H. A. (2001). The psychology of procedural and distributive justice viewed from the perspective of fairness heuristic theory. In R. Cropanzano (Ed.), Series in applied psychology. Justice in the workplace: From theory to practice (pp. 49–66). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Van Prooijen, J. W., Van den Bos, K., & Wilke, H. A. (2004). Group belongingness and procedural justice: Social inclusion and exclusion by peers affects the psychology of voice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87(1), 66–79. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.87.1.66. CrossRefPubMed

Vermunt, R., Van der Kloot, W. A., & Van der Meer, J. (1993). The effect of procedural and interactional criteria on procedural fairness judgments. Social Justice Research, 6(2), 183–194. CrossRef

Vignoles, V. L., Regalia, C., Manzi, C., Golledge, J., & Scabini, E. (2006). Beyond self-esteem: Influence of multiple motives on identity construction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 308–333. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.308. CrossRefPubMed

Ward, C., & Kennedy, A. (1994). Acculturation strategies, psychological adjustment, and sociocultural competence during cross-cultural transitions. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 18(3), 329–343. https://doi.org/10.1016/0147-1767(94)90036-1. CrossRef

Title: Societal Actors Shape Collective Identities of Minorities: Procedural Fairness Climate Effects on Identification, Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Health
Authors: Barbara Valcke
Alain Van Hiel
Thomas Van Roey
Bart Van De Putte
Kim Dierckx
Publication date: 11-09-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Social Justice Research / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0885-7466
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-020-00357-6

Springer Professional

Hint

Swipe to navigate through the articles of this issue

Abstract

Please log in to get access to this content

To get access to this content you need the following product:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Other articles of this Issue 4/2020

“Here, It’s Like You Don’t Have to Leave the Classroom to Solve a Problem”: How Restorative Justice in Schools Contributes to Students’ Individual and Collective Sense of Coherence

Lay Victims’ Conceptions of Environmental Crime and Environmental Injustice: The Case of the Chem-Dyne Superfund Site

Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World, Well-Being, and Academic Cheating: A Cross-National Study

Counterintuitive Effects of Individualistic Diversity Discourse on “Generation Bataclan”

Premium Partner