Ruijter, Nienke de (2024) The Impact of Negative Personalised Meta-Stereotypes and Ingroup Identification on Asexual Individuals’ Well-Being. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Similar to other sexual minorities, asexual individuals often have to face negative attitudes and stereotypes from others. As a result, they may hold negative personalised metastereotypes: beliefs about the negative stereotypes that outgroup members hold about them personally due to their asexuality. In the current study, we investigated the relationships between negative personalised meta-stereotypes (involving a heterosexual outgroup or an allosexual LGBTQ+ outgroup), ingroup identification (with the asexual community and the broader LGBTQ+ community), and psychological well-being. We conducted an online correlational study with an international sample of asexual individuals (N = 412). We found that asexual participants who believed they were negatively stereotyped by heterosexual people had lower psychological well-being. At the same time, in line with the RejectionIdentification Model (Branscombe et al., 1999a), believing to be negatively stereotyped predicted higher identification with the asexual community, which in turn was related to higher psychological well-being. These relationships were not found for identification with the LGBTQ+ community and for negative personalised meta-stereotypes involving an allosexual LGBTQ+ outgroup, indicating that the well-being of asexual people is mostly related to their perceptions of heterosexual people’s views on asexuality as well as their own identification with the asexual community.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gordijn, E.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2024 09:45 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 09:45 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3889 |
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