Title
Perceived Stigma, Social Identity, and Group Norms as Predictors of Prosocial Giving in a Fandom
Abstract
AbstractPeople engage in helping behavior for a variety of reasons. Currently unstudied, however, is the role that group stigmatization may play in motivating this helping behavior. Increased perceptions or feelings of stigma have been shown to increase identification with one's group identity through the rejection-identification model. Other research shows that group identification is associated with greater adherence to group norms, specifically, injunctive norms. If a group's norms are prosocial ones, it therefore follows that group stigma should be associated with prosocial behavior. The authors propose and test this model in this article relating to the perceived stigma to prosocial behavior in a rarely-studied, highly-stigmatized fan community with strong prosocial norms: fans of My Little Pony. Serial mediation analysis supports this model. Implications and directions for future research in light of these findings are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.4018/IJICST.2016010103
Periodicals
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
6
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2155-4218
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel P. Chadborn100.34
Courtney N. Plante200.34
Stephen Reysen3152.11