Social class and identity-based motivation.
Curr Opin Psychol
; 18: 61-66, 2017 12.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28826006
ABSTRACT
Attainments often fall short of aspirations to lead lives of meaning, health, happiness and success. Identity-based motivation theory highlights how social class and cultural contexts affect likelihood of shortfalls Identities influence the strategies people are willing to use to attain their goals and the meaning people make of experienced ease and difficulty. Though sensitive to experienced ease and difficulty, people are not sensitive to the sources of these experiences. Instead, people make culturally-tuned inferences about what their experiences imply for who they are and could become and what to do about it. American culture highlights personal and shadows structural causes of ease and difficulty, success and failure. As a result, people infer that class-based outcomes are deserved reflections of character.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Social Class
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Social Identification
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Motivation
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Curr Opin Psychol
Year:
2017
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States