Sense of home buffers threats to the self

Yang, Ziyan, Sedikides, Constantine, Yue, Xitong and Cai, Huajian (2020) Sense of home buffers threats to the self. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23 (3), 313-318. (doi:10.1111/ajsp.12403).

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Abstract

We hypothesised that sense of home serves as a buffer against self‐threat. In three experiments, we induced sense of home (vs. control) and assessed its buffering function to threat. Sense of home augmented openness to stereotype threat information (Experiment 1), increased performance on a spatial rotation ability test after stereotype threat (Experiment 2), and reduced the desire for high‐status products following mortality salience (Experiment 3). This “proof of concept” research establishes the buffering potential of sense of home and raises theoretical and practical implications.

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Accepted/In Press date: 9 January 2020

e-pub ahead of print date: 11 February 2020

Published date: 1 September 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 31571148, National Social Science Fund of China Grant 17ZDA324, and Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Grant Y9CX183005. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Asian Association of Social Psychology and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd

Keywords: Home, mortality salience, self, self-threat, sense of home, stereotype threat