When other people are heaven, when other people are hell: how social identity determines the nature and impact of social support

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Making support work: The interplay between social support and social identity (2014, background): “Specifically, Haslam et al. (2012) proposed that a shared social identity serves as a basis for giving and receiving social support as well as for a favorable interpretation of support.”
When groups help and when groups harm: Origins, developments, and future directions of the “Social Cure” perspective of group dynamics (2019, background): “The evidence underpinning the perspective is substantial: across the domains of healthcare, employment, community life, and sporting achievement, psychologically meaningful group memberships have been shown to impact positively on well-being (Haslam et al., 2012, 2018).”
Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, unknown): “Not all the groups to which individuals belong have a positive impact on physical and psychological wellbeing (Haslam et al. 2012; Jetten et al. 2014), nor that they all promote healthy behaviours (Oyserman et al. 2007).”