{"id":14,"date":"2014-03-24T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:16:28","slug":"strand-two","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/strand-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Strand Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a member of and identifying with a group that has a positive social identity are associated with a range of positive outcomes, including increases in well-being and resilience, and decreases in intergroup conflict and aggression. Along with recent research indicating that people can form social identities around their level of education, this suggests that forming social identities may provide a buffer for those with low levels of education against the negative consequences associated with their low status position (see\u00a0<a title=\"Strand One\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/strand-one\/\">Strand One<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However, as we outlined in the\u00a0<a title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/\">overview<\/a>, forming a positive social identity for those with low levels of education is likely to be difficult. We expected, therefore, that people\u2019s level of education would be a more important part of their identity if they had higher levels of education, which we investigated using data from the Understanding Society and Citizenship Surveys.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"s2_1\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/files\/2014\/03\/s2_1.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>We found that, although education was more important to people\u2019s identities as their level of education increased, it was somewhat important across all levels of education, including those with no educational qualifications (Figure 1).<\/p>\n<p>Next, we investigated the buffering potential of identity: does forming a social identity around one\u2019s level of education increase well-being and positive social attitudes, and potentially counteract some of the negative consequences associated with low levels of education (see\u00a0<a title=\"Strand One\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/strand-one\/\">Strand One<\/a>)? Supporting our predictions, we found that identifying with one\u2019s level of education was positively related to well-being (Figure 2) and decreased negative social attitudes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"s2_2\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/files\/2014\/03\/s2_2.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>We also found some evidence suggesting that identifying with your educational group provides the greatest benefits for those who had the lowest levels of education, especially in regard to increasing political engagement. This implies that it is particularly important for those with low levels of education to form an identity based on their level of education. However, the analyses we conducted in\u00a0<a title=\"Strand Three\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/strand-three\/\">Strand Three<\/a>\u00a0suggests that this is not the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a member of and identifying with a group that has a positive social identity are associated with a range of positive outcomes, including increases in well-being and resilience, and decreases in intergroup conflict and aggression. Along with recent research indicating that people can form social identities around their level of education, this suggests that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/issw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}