Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy
How will in-group members react to a merit-violating situation that favours the outgroup? This paper aims to answer this question by examining relative deprivation’s effects on national identification and disidentification. The context of this relationship would be an intergroup comparison between l...
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| author | Lee, Ariel Zhi Zhen |
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| description | How will in-group members react to a merit-violating situation that favours the outgroup? This paper aims to answer this question by examining relative deprivation’s effects on national identification and disidentification. The context of this relationship would be an intergroup comparison between locals and foreigners where the country is in need of more foreigners. Relative deprivation was predicted to be negatively related to national identification and positively related to national disidentification. Belief in meritocracy and merit discrepancy was also predicted to moderate these relationships.
University students from Nanyang Technological University were recruited across three studies to complete study items on a questionnaire. Consistent with predictions, merit discrepancy moderated the relationship between relative deprivation and disidentification (Studies 1 to 3); Only participants with low merit discrepancy dis-identified more with Singapore the more relative deprived they felt while participants with high merit discrepancy did not dis-identify more with Singapore regardless of their levels of relative deprivation. The relative deprivation-identification and relative deprivation-disidentification relationship was also mediated by less perceived control (Study 3). Cognitive relative deprivation was found to drive the effects of relative deprivation on disidentification more than Affective relative deprivation (Studies 1 to 3). These findings suggest that when group boundaries are highly permeable and stable, relative deprivation and the expectation of a meritocratic society will result in the need to distance the self-identity from the group identity. Relative deprivation is also positively related to national disidentification through the loss of perceived control. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1552442023-03-05T15:53:28Z Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy Lee, Ariel Zhi Zhen Wan Ching School of Social Sciences WanChing@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Psychology How will in-group members react to a merit-violating situation that favours the outgroup? This paper aims to answer this question by examining relative deprivation’s effects on national identification and disidentification. The context of this relationship would be an intergroup comparison between locals and foreigners where the country is in need of more foreigners. Relative deprivation was predicted to be negatively related to national identification and positively related to national disidentification. Belief in meritocracy and merit discrepancy was also predicted to moderate these relationships. University students from Nanyang Technological University were recruited across three studies to complete study items on a questionnaire. Consistent with predictions, merit discrepancy moderated the relationship between relative deprivation and disidentification (Studies 1 to 3); Only participants with low merit discrepancy dis-identified more with Singapore the more relative deprived they felt while participants with high merit discrepancy did not dis-identify more with Singapore regardless of their levels of relative deprivation. The relative deprivation-identification and relative deprivation-disidentification relationship was also mediated by less perceived control (Study 3). Cognitive relative deprivation was found to drive the effects of relative deprivation on disidentification more than Affective relative deprivation (Studies 1 to 3). These findings suggest that when group boundaries are highly permeable and stable, relative deprivation and the expectation of a meritocratic society will result in the need to distance the self-identity from the group identity. Relative deprivation is also positively related to national disidentification through the loss of perceived control. Master of Arts 2022-02-14T01:30:58Z 2022-02-14T01:30:58Z 2021 Thesis-Master by Research Lee, A. Z. Z. (2021). Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155244 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155244 10.32657/10356/155244 en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Psychology Lee, Ariel Zhi Zhen Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy |
| title | Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy |
| title_full | Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy |
| title_fullStr | Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy |
| title_short | Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy |
| title_sort | hiring in singapore perspectives from relative deprivation social identity and meritocracy |
| topic | Social sciences::Psychology |
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