Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Barton, Michelle

Keywords

Community, Self-Concept, Ingroup

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

This study investigated the inclusion of community in the self comparing a school community and a local/city community. Participants were administered a survey with a self descriptive task, community descriptive task, and modified Inclusion of Community in Self Scale. Participants then performed a self descriptive reaction time task. Reaction time responses on traits that matched between the self and community were quicker than on traits that mismatched. Participants were more connected to the school community than the local/city community, and the reaction time effect was significant only in the school community. These findings provide more concrete evidence for the inclusion of community in self scale, and support the use of connectionist models in explaining the overlap of self and community mental representations.

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