Roxane de la Sablonnière

• Université de Montréal

Previous studies indicate differences in experiences of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic but are constricted by limited timeframes and absence of key risk factors. This study explores temporal and inter-individual variations of loneliness in Canadians over the pandemic’s first year (April 2020–2021), by identifying loneliness trajectories. I...

In this national study, we analyzed population-level data from a representative longitudinal survey to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal ideation rates. Between April and May 2021, responses from 1793 adults aged 20 and older were collected regarding suicidal ideation. Our analysis revealed a significant increase in suicida...

Background Previous longitudinal studies have identified variability in compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures, noting the heightened sensitivity of the least compliant groups to situational factors like easing restrictions. However, they overlooked other forms of variability inherent in compliance behaviour. Hence, we investigated compliance...

Introduction This study examined social perceptions and rejection towards fifteen mental illnesses, as well as a preliminary test of the SUBAR model, that hypothesized perceptions of both vital forces and burden would be negatively and positively related to social rejection, respectively. Methods Using an online survey with participants from Franc...

Previous studies have highlighted the importance of promoting health literacy and minimizing misinformation to encourage higher adherence to key public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explores how one’s self-reported understanding of information and types of sources used to get information regarding COVID-19 can hinder adhe...

In the context of public health crises such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, it is essential that individuals cooperate by complying with preventive measures (e.g., wearing a mask). The current research examines how high trust in close others is linked to less cooperation—that is, less compliance with measures—and thus, undermines collective interests. Sp...

StepMix is an open-source software package for the pseudo-likelihood estimation (one-, two- and three-step approaches) of generalized finite mixture models (latent profile and latent class analysis) with external variables (covariates and distal outcomes). In many applications in social sciences, the main objective is not only to cluster individual...

Introduction: We investigated whether initial risk classes and heterogeneous trajectories of self-compassion over the course of the pandemic may impact well-being outcomes 1 year into the pandemic. Methods: A large, representative sample of Canadians (N = 3,613; 50.6% women) was sampled longitudinally over 11 waves (April 2020-April 2021), using...

Voting is highly valued in democratic societies. However, in recent years there has been a marked decline in voting. To realign voting behavior with democratic values, we turn to the study of injunctive‐norm interventions. These interventions advance that by making injunctive norms, the norms representing collective values, salient to a targeted gr...

Decades of research have shown that social dominance orientation (SDO) is one of the most important predictors of anti-immigrant attitudes. However, the mechanisms through which SDO can explain prejudice have been studied insufficiently. Using rich and diverse samples from France and from the province of Québec in Canada, the present research prov...

Objectives Previous studies found a general increase in prejudice against Chinese people during the first months of the pandemic. The present study aims to consider inter-individual heterogeneity in stability and change regarding prejudice involving Chinese people during the pandemic. The first objective is to identify and describe different trajec...

Previous studies have highlighted the importance of promoting health literacy and minimizing misinformation to encourage higher adherence to key sanitary measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explores how one’s understanding of information and sources’ reliability can hinder adherence to sanitary measures implemented by the Canadian gov...

This study examines the evolution of Schwartz’s Basic Human Values during the COVID-19 outbreak, and their relationships with perceived threat, compliance with movement restrictions and social distancing. An online questionnaire was administered to a heterogeneous sample of French citizens (N = 1025) during the first French lockdown related to the...

How people view their social groups’ history has important implications at both the collective and the individual levels. It has been established that collective memories, the representations of one’s groups’ history, differ between generations and individuals. Yet, it remains unclear how collective memories change in reaction to dramatic social ch...

Le Journal sur l'identité, les relations interpersonnelles et les relations intergroupes (JIRIRI) est un journal scientifique international publié annuellement au mois d'avril et affilié à l'Université de Montréal. Le JIRIRI a été fondé par la professeure Roxane de la Sablonnière en 2007 et a publié son quatorzième volume à l'hiver 2021. Notre miss...

In our research, we investigated the role of law clarity and coherence on individuals’ approval of this law in the specific context of a widely discussed and controversial topic: the ban on wearing religious signs in public spaces. We hypothesize that manipulating the clarity and coherence of a law influences individuals’ approval of that law throu...

Recent advances in social psychological research have shown that national integration policies influence how immigrants are perceived and treated by the mainstream population. However, the processes by which these policies come to have an impact on prejudice and well‐being of the general population are largely unknown. Moreover, past research has o...

When intergroup conflicts occur, they can radically modify the societies experiencing them. However, two societies experiencing highly similar intergroup conflicts can experience different societal states. Some may be plunged into dramatic social change while other societies remain in stability. We argue that similar intergroup conflicts can result...

We argue that dramatic social change arising from collective action does not represent the worst-case scenario for group members. Specifically, we introduce the concept of collective inertia: a societal state where group members face a macro system devoid of clearly articulated collective goals and values coupled with dysfunctional social and norma...

Immigrants experience identity shifts; they can identify with the new cultural group and, sometimes, identify less with their group of origin. Previous research suggests that participation in the new cultural group predicts these two identity shifts. However, these studies have exclusively used correlational methodologies. Furthermore, previous res...

An introduction to the social psychology of language. We delve into language as a symbol of cultural identity, and how language is used in intergroup relations. This includes convergence/divergence, linguistic expectation bias, and additive/subtractive bilingualism.

Globalization impacts the identities of millions. This research first investigates whether participating in a new cultural group predicts higher identification with it while remaining in one’s group of origin. Second, it tests whether the association between identification with the new group (following participation) and with the group of origin de...

Dramatic social change (DSC) is the new normal, affecting millions of people around the world. However, not all events plunge societies into DSC. According to de la Sablonnière (2017, Front. Psychol., 8, 1), events that have a rapid pace of change, that rupture an entire group's social and normative structures, and that threaten the group's cultura...

Le soi est malléable et capable d’intégrer de nouvelles identités sociales. Des recherches ont démontré que la participation à un nouveau groupe social prédit une plus forte identification à ce dernier. Par contre, ces recherches n’expliquent pas les mécanismes psychologiques responsables de cette identification accrue ainsi que ses conséquences su...

Indigenous languages are at the verge of extinction. For many indigenous communities, saving their languages means protecting one of the last-standing symbols of their cultural identity, a symbol that has survived a history of colonization and that can impact their well-being. If indigenous languages are to survive and are to be revitalized, langua...

The challenges that indigenous communities face around the world in terms of preserving their heritage language seem unsurmountable. Of the 4000 indigenous languages worldwide, 2465 are on the brink of extinction. A legacy of evidence-based research on bilingual education has demonstrated the cultural and psychological benefits of having skills in...

Participation in a new culture and identification with a new culture are important issues faced by millions of immigrants today. Literature describes three possible relations between participation and identification. First, some researchers postulate that they are part of the basic acculturation phenomenon and hence equivalent (Model 1). Others pos...

Research on national diversity policies show that cultural norms promoted by the government such as multiculturalism and assimilation play an important role in predicting the majority group members’ prejudice toward immigrants. However, the extent to which minority groups can share these cultural norms with majority group members is largely unknown...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by dramatic social change (DSC). While sociological theory aims to understand its precipitants, the psychological consequences remain poorly understood. A large-scale literature review pointed to the desperate need for a typology of social change that might guide theory and research toward a better understa...

"Distributive justice is a major preoccupation for political and social psychology, not because it constitutes a major theory itself, but because it surfaces in virtually every politically relevant psychological theory, including social identity theory, social dominance orientation, relative deprivation theory, and system justification theory, to n...

"The question of justice is as old as humanity itself, and history provides us with endless examples of interpersonal and intergroup conflicts in which lives were lost and resources allocated in order to do 'what is right.' From a psychological perspective, it is impossible to determine what “right” means in any objective and independent fashion. T...

The challenges that indigenous communities face around the world in terms of preserving their heritage language seem unsurmountable. Of the 4000 indigenous languages worldwide, 2465 are on the brink of extinction. A legacy of evidence-based research on bilingual education has demonstrated the cultural and psychological benefits of having skills in...

The celebrated end of Apartheid did not resolve all intergroup tensions in South Africa. In particular, newcomers have become a target of intergroup hostility and are generally perceived as threatening by citizens. Whereas the tendency for citizens to dislike newcomers has been extensively documented, citizens' support for newcomers' fundamental ri...

The present research investigates the interrelation between twowidely studied dimensions of social group identity—in-group affect and centrality. Specifically, we test the validity of a quadratic curvilinear relation between ingroup affect and identity centrality. We propose that group members who feel either decidedly positive affect or decidedly...

Identity integration, and more specifically, the subtractive pattern of cultural identification, is investigated in this article. This pattern is hypothesized to occur when individuals integrate a new group identity of higher and legitimate status than their original identity, resulting in lower identification with the original group. The first stu...

This study investigated the conditions under which discrimination can lead to social identity changes among members of a minority group. Both positive and negative relations between perceptions of discrimination and social identity have previously been reported. To explain the conflicting results and understand the complex reality of members of sti...

Objectives: The research investigating how one’s multiple cultural identities are configured within the self has yet to account for existing cultural identity configurations aside from integration, and for identifying with more than 2 cultural groups at once. The current research addresses these issues by constructing the Multicultural Identity Int...

Marginalization is often presented as the strategy associated with the worst adjustment for immigrants. This study identifies a critical variable that buffers marginal immigrants from the negative effects of marginalization on adjustment: The need for uniqueness. In three studies, we surveyed immigrants recruited on university campuses (n = 119, n...

How people come to develop a feeling of belongingness to a new social group and orchestrate this new group membership with pre-existing identities within the self-concept is a theoretically and socially relevant phenomenon that has received increased scientific attention in recent years. Models from different fields of psychology – including social...

During times of profound social change, people’s psychological well-being is related to their assessment of their path from the past to the future [temporal relative deprivation (RD)]. A first survey conducted in Mongolia (n = 480) and data from a representative population survey conducted in South Africa (n = 2,711) are used to explore whether the...

Abstract After apparently beneficial life changes, people are expected to experience elevated well-being. However, research suggests that some individuals adapt quickly to change, so their well-being increases little in the long-term. We propose this phenomenon is explained by the integration of the changes into identity, in interaction with percei...

he widespread failure of so many interventions in First Nations and Inuit communities across Canada requires an explanation. Applying the theoretical and methodological rigour of experimental social psychology to genuine community-based constructive change, Donald Taylor and Roxane de la Sablonnière outline new ways of addressing the challenges tha...

In a relatively short time span, issues of ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity have become central topics of discussion in various nations. As a result, the role of broad ideologies that frame and structure relations between groups has received increasing attention by social psychologists. Of particular concern has been the role of these inte...

Culture is acknowledged to be a critical element in the construction of an individual's identity; however, in today's increasingly multicultural environments, the influence of culture is no longer straightforward. It is now important to explore cultural identity clarity—the extent to which beliefs about identity that arise from one's cultural group...

Dramatic social changes, such as the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the ongoing “Arab Spring” uprisings, are present throughout history and continue to affect millions of people every day. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of empirical ‘real-world’ research due in part to a lack of basic theory that might provide a framework to guide social psyc...

Purpose: Rehabilitation professionals and researchers underscore the impact of an acquired disability on identity. However, the cognitive process by which identity is transformed is understudied. The present study aims to explore the cognitive process by which personal identity is reconstructed following disability onset. Methods: A template org...

Dans une société où la technologie est en constant changement et y occupe une place essentielle, l’ensemble de la population est affectée par ces transformations. Toutefois, la recherche s’est peu intéressée à comprendre l’impact des changements technologiques sur le bien-être et l’identité des personnes âgées. Ce groupe est particulièrement menacé...

Understanding the experiences of multicultural individuals is vital in our diverse populations. Multicultural people often need to navigate the different norms and values associated with their multiple cultural identities. Recent research on multicultural identification has focused on how individuals with multiple cultural groups manage these diffe...

Studies worldwide point toward increased risk of mental health issues among immigrants. Immigrants' ability to integrate the cultural identity of their new country has been found to be a key factor in their psychological well-being. Even though researchers agree on the crucial role of identity integration in immigrants' well-being, the current lite...

Communities can become dysfunctional. Many Aboriginal and inner city communities are not only defined by mainstream authorities, but equally by themselves, as struggling with a persistent range of social problems. Intervention strategies have been applied for years involving vast human and financial resources, all to no avail. The problem is not a...

The reasons underlying some individuals’ negative reactions to profound societal and organizational changes are still unclear. We argue that collective relative deprivation (i.e., feelings of discontent arising from group-based threat) mediates the relationship between perceptions of change and employees’ psychological reactions. Specifically, we t...

Dramatic social change involves profound transformations that impact an entire group moving forward. Such is the reality for race relations in South Africa. Research has found that most people report a trajectory of group-based relative deprivation that appears to parallel actual historical events. However, a significant subset of respondents repor...

In most scientific fields, significant improvements have been made in terms of data sharing among scientists and researchers. Although there are clear benefits to data sharing, there is at least one field where this norm has yet to be developed: the behavioural sciences. In this paper, we propose an innovative methodology as a means to change exist...

In this article, the authors suggest that one method for increasing awareness of the benefits of data sharing can be affected by administering a survey, hopefully encouraging either a minority or majority influence on other members of the behavioural science community. The authors describe the process for creating such a survey and provide their su...

Ideally the central issue of social psychology should be the study of psychological processes accompanying, determining, and determined by social change. Tajfel (1972, p. 4).Social psychology is a fascinating field. It examines how people interact with each other and explores internal psychological processes that dictate everyday human behavior. Th...

Responding to calls to contextualize social psychological variables in history, the present research examines the relationship between collective relative deprivation and collective esteem using a historical perspective. We hypothesized that collective relative deprivation perceived to be experienced during an important low-point in a group's histo...

Immigration and the Integration of a New Cultural Identity into the SelfA Model of Multiple and Multicultural Identity IntegrationDramatic Social Changes in Québec, Immigration, and Strong Feelings of ThreatConcrete Implications of the Theoretical Model and Empirical Findings for Policy Design and Social InterventionsConclusion AcknowledgmentsNoteR...

Dramatic social change leads to profound societal transformations in many countries around the world. The two recent revolutions in March 2005 and April 2010, and the ethnic conflict in June 2010 in Kyrgyzstan are vivid examples. The present research aims to understand people’s reactions to dramatic social change in terms of personal well-being. To...

In this paper, we argue that the target of comparison should be taken into consideration when evaluating the associated outcomes of negative comparisons in the context of dramatic social change. To achieve this general goal, we considered five distinct targets of comparison: social (my group versus another group), temporal (my group across time), a...

The challenge of maximizing student learning has been paramount in many societies. This issue has become especially salient in the context of drastic social and political changes that have taken place in countries such as Kyrgyzstan. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, teachers and students are confronted with new ways of thinking, which are ch...

Social and temporal comparisons: A sequential approach and the role of the unique situation Social and temporal comparisons are self-evaluation strategies that have consequences on self-esteem. In this paper, social and temporal comparisons will be conveyed through a sequential approach, where social comparisons precede temporal comparisons. Two po...

Two studies assess people's reactions in the midst of dramatic social change. The studies examine consequences of social change in Russia and Mongolia after the dismantlement of the Soviet Union. They focus on the impact of social changes that are numerous, negative, and rapid. Specifically, an integration of relative deprivation and social identit...

The present study investigated the relationship between Temporal Collective Relative Deprivation and collective well-being in the context of dramatic social change in Kyrgyzstan. Traditional research has evaluated Temporal Collective Relative Deprivation by comparing a group's present situation to a point in the recent past or future. We argue that...

The aim of this paper is to apply a newly developed theoretical model to the understanding of how a new linguistic identity becomes integrated in immigrants’ self-concept. While intergroup theories have addressed the situational changes in social identities, the longer-term processes underlying developmental changes in identities and their integrat...

Résumé La privation relative temporelle est le sentiment de menace ressenti par les individus suite à des comparaisons négatives entre la situation actuelle de leur groupe d'appartenance et la situation de leur groupe dans le passé. Les travaux empiriques antérieurs sur la privation relative temporelle ont identifié un lien prédictif modéré négatif...

In the present study, an integration of relative deprivation theory and social identity theory is proposed to account for people's reactions to dramatic changes affecting their daily lives. Data collected among nurses (n = 108) indicate that feelings of relative deprivation are influenced by different perceptions of organizational change. Path anal...

This article presents a model of social identity development and integration in the self. Classic intergroup theories (e.g., social identity theory, self-categorization theory) address the situational, short-term changes in social identities. Although these theories identify the contextual and environmental factors that explain situational changes...

The purpose of this investigation was to test the hypothesized reciprocal top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) relationships between motivation at one given level and motivation at the next adjacent level in Vallerand's [1997, Toward a hierarchical model of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psycho...

Reviews the book, Les fondements de la psychologie sociale, 2e édition edited by Robert J. Vallerand (2006). Social psychology is a fascinating field of research. It enables us to explain collective phenomena as well as interpersonal behaviors and group dynamics. Robert J. Vallerand proposes an exciting scientific voyage into the heart of human soc...

The role of 2 components of psychological disengagement (discounting and devaluing) in the relation between personal relative deprivation and self-esteem was explored in 3 samples of policewomen. Path analyses conducted with the 3 samples revealed that stronger feelings of personal relative deprivation resulted in stronger discounting of work evalu...

Although the work force is aging, views regarding older workers remain negative. As a result, complaints of discrimination on the basis of age have increased. This situation prompts the following questions: what leads aging workers to acknowledge disparities between younger workers and themselves, and what are the consequences for aging workers of...

This study pertains to the causes and effects of the nationalism of a minority group. According to the predictive model presented, identification with the minority group is positively associated with collective relative deprivation, whereas identification with the majority group is negatively associated with these feelings. The model links collecti...

In this paper, we examined the impact of the numerical representation and the intrusiveness of immigrants on feelings of group threat voiced by the majority. The present evaluation of group threat differs from previous studies in its inclusion of temporal comparisons. The relationship between feelings of threat and attitudes toward immigration was...

With the collaboration of Paul Khatchadourian Kativik School Board When the entire history of a society is captured by a few simple labels, it indicates a high degree of consensus about a group's past, present, and possibly it's future. This level of agreement is precisely the case for current conceptions of relations between mainstream Canadian so...