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Ondish, Peter R 2016-03-02T19:45:22Z 2016-03-02T19:45:22Z 2015-12-11 2015-12 Building on social identity theory and the sociocultural model of the self, we show that relatively lower-class individuals who value their social class identity (as activated by the “working class” label) experience elevated group identification and well-being. First, we found that social class identification significantly predicted self-esteem while controlling for traditional measures of social class (Study 1). Next, when primed with a working class identity, relative to a lower class identity, individuals from relatively lower-class backgrounds showed stronger group identification, endorsed more positive stereotypes about their social class group, and showed less negative affect (Studies 2a and 2b). Implications for conceptualizing social class as a valued group identity and its implications for the social class academic achievement gap are discussed. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2016-03-02 without embargo terms The student, Peter Ondish, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-11 at 13:48. The student, Peter Ondish, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-12-11 at 13:53. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-12-11 at 14:21. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9020 on 2016-03-02 at 12:53:21 Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T19:45:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 ONDISH-THESIS-2015.pdf: 717945 bytes, checksum: 7cfecea315c024592a2a076a0f40146b (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: 2c6aef3f2a4f6f0311fa05b83575d147 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-11 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89102 en Copyright 2015 Peter Ondish social class social identity affect well-being Effects of the working class label: increased affect and social class identification text text Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A.