The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries

Khalifah Alfadhli; Meltem Güler; Huseyin Cakal; John Drury

doi:10.5334/irsp.176

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Descriptive statistics and correlations.

		Min Max	M	SD	1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Collective efficacy	1/7	4.58	1.83
2.	Expected support	1/7	4.56	1.96	0.267	***
3.	Practical support	1/5	3.40	1.18	0.197	**	0.072
4.	Shared social Identity	1/5	2.22	0.99	0.201	**	0.582	***	0.167	*
5.	Coordinated support	1/5	3.14	0.66	0.110		0.129	*	0.560	***	0.193	**
6.	Emotional support	1/7	5.01	1.56	0.093		0.124		0.608	***	0.212	**	0.434	***
7.	General health	1/5	3.45	1.20	0.205	**	0.094		0.079		0.100		0.112		0.006

[i] *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Standarised results of path analysis using multiple regression analyses.

Table 2

Descriptive statistics and correlations.

		Min Max	M	SD	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8	9		10
1.	Shared Identity	0/4	2.41	1.01
2.	Expected Support	0/4	2.02	0.90	0.609	**
3.	Collective Efficacy	0/4	1.82	0.78	0.381	***	0.392	***
4.	Practical Support	0/4	1.83	1.22	0.313	***	0.137		0.116
5.	Coordinated sup.	0/4	1.24	1.03	0.298	***	0.233	**	0.105		0.591	***
6.	General Health	0/4	2.11	0.66	0.152		0.156		0.234	**	0.098		0.187	*
7.	Stress	0/4	2.09	0.60	–0.068		–0.066		–0.117		–0.086		–0.182	*	–0.570	***
8.	Common Fate	0/4	2.16	1.06	0.418	***	0.419	***	0.069		0.167	*	0.235	**	–0.042		0.13
9.	Secondary Stressors	0/4	1.98	0.73	0.088		0.032		–0.024		–0.013		–0.275	**	–0.09		0.280	***	0.085
10.	Emotional support	0/4	2.89	1.00	0.288	***	0.212	**	0.271	**	0.404	***	0.298	***	0.166	*	–0.043		0.068	0.230	**
11.	Time in Exile	1/5	4.12	0.83	0.057		–0.046		–0.089		0.116		0.068		0.058		0.082		0.137	0.163	*	.320	***

[i] *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Table 3

Indirect specific effects.

					β	95%CI
Secondary Stressors ➔			Stress ➔	General health	–0.153	–0.231, –0.076
Secondary Stressors ➔			Coordinated support ➔	General health	–0.021	–0.055, 0.010
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔		Collective efficacy ➔	General health	0.015	0.004, 0.043
Common Fate ➔		Expected Support ➔	Collective efficacy ➔	General health	0.009	0.001, 0.03
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔		Coordinated support ➔	General health	0.010	–0.003, 0.031
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔	Expected Support ➔	Collective efficacy ➔	General health	0.010	0.002, 0.029
	Shared Social Identity ➔		Collective efficacy ➔	General health	0.037	0.007, 0.094
	Shared Social Identity ➔		Coordinated support ➔	General health	0.024	–0.009, 0.068
	Shared Social Identity ➔	Expected Support ➔	Collective efficacy ➔	General health	0.023	0.003, 0.065
		Expected Support ➔	Collective efficacy ➔	General health	0.044	0.006, 0.115
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔		Collective efficacy		0.092	0.026, 0.187
Common Fate ➔		Expected Support ➔	Collective efficacy		0.052	0.013, 0.120
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔	Expected Support ➔	Collective efficacy		0.058	0.019, 0.116
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔		Coordinated support		0.135	0.073, 0.214
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔		Practical support		0.131	0.072, 0.213
Common Fate ➔	Shared Social Identity ➔	Expected support			0.220	0.146, 0.311
	Shared Social Identity ➔	Expected Support ➔	Collective efficacy		0.138	0.043, 0.252

[i] Note. Bootstrap is based on 5000 re-samples. When confidence intervals do not include zero this shows that there is a significant indirect effect (Preacher & Hayes, 2008; Williams & MacKinnon, 2008). Standardized coefficients are shown.