Ingroup Bias and Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis

By C. Aberson, Michael R. Healy, Victoria L. Romero. 2000

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A meta-analysis examined the relation between self-esteem and ingroup bias. The project focused on effects of ingroup bias strategy and measurement of self-esteem. Results indicated that high-self-esteem individuals exhibited more ingroup bias than did low-self-esteem individuals. Bias strategy and self-esteem measurement moderated this relation. When using “direct” ingroup bias strategies, high-self-esteem individuals showed more bias than did low-self-esteem individuals. When using “indirect” strategies, groups exhibited comparable amounts of bias. Results were comparable for collective and personal self-esteem measures. Examination of specific collective measures indicated that self-esteem defined by the Collective Self-Esteem Scale (Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992) did not predict differences in ingroup bias, whereas group identification measures did predict differences in ingroup bias. Results are interpreted as indicating that both high and low-self-esteem individuals exhibit ingroup bias; however, expression of ingroup bias by individuals with low self-esteem is constrained by situational factors. Furthermore, individual-level factors such as personal self-esteem may be useful in predicting collective enhancement.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Self-compassion and adaptive psychological functioning. (2007, background): “Although psychologists extolled the beneWts of self-esteem for decades, recent research has exposed potential costs associated with the pursuit of high self-esteem (Crocker & Park, 2004), including narcissism (Bushman & Baumeister, 1998), distorted self-perceptions (Sedikides, 1993), prejudice ( Abe”
Intergroup bias. (2002, background): “An exhaustive narrative review (Rubin&Hewstone 1998) andmeta-analysis (Aberson et al. 2000) of over 50 experiments reveals that the majority of evidence supports corollary 1, but there is little evidence for corollary 2.”
Frequent Social Comparisons and Destructive Emotions and Behaviors: The Dark Side of Social Comparisons (2006, background): “High self-esteem, in fact, is linked to greater ingroup bias ( Aberson, Healy, & Romero, 2000 ).”