Greater family identification – but not greater contact with family members - leads to better health: evidence from a Spanish longitudinal study

Wakefield, J.R.H. ORCID: 0000-0001-9155-9683, Sani, F., Herrera, M., Khan, S.S. and Dugard, P., 2016. Greater family identification – but not greater contact with family members - leads to better health: evidence from a Spanish longitudinal study. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46 (4), pp. 506-513. ISSN 1099-0992

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Abstract

We investigated the effect of family identification (one's subjective sense of belonging to and commonality with the family) on self-reported ill-health in 206 Valencian undergraduates, with eight months between T1 and T2. While greater family identification T1 predicted lower ill-health T2, ill-health T1 did not predict family identification T2. family contact T1 (one’s intensity of interaction with family) was unrelated to ill-health T2. This shows that family identification impacts positively on health over time (rather than health impacting positively on family identification over time), and this is not reducible to effects exerted by family contact. These findings indicate that encouraging patients to engage in group activities might produce negligible health gains unless the patient identifies with the group in question.

Item Type:	Journal article
Alternative Title:	Family identification and health [running title]
Publication Title:	European Journal of Social Psychology
Creators:	Wakefield, J.R.H., Sani, F., Herrera, M., Khan, S.S. and Dugard, P.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	June 2016
Volume:	46
Number:	4
ISSN:	1099-0992
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1002/ejsp.2171 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	28 Oct 2015 10:34
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2017 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25988

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