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      Promoting resilience in adolescents: A new social identity benefits those who need it most

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          The Social Identity Approach to Health holds that groups provide us with a sense of meaning and belonging, and that these identity processes have a significant positive impact on our health and wellbeing. Typically, research drawing from the social identity approach with adolescents has focused on the benefits of existing group memberships. Here, using a sail-training intervention, we investigated the impact of providing adolescents with a new group (i.e., a new social identity) on psychological resilience. Across two studies, we demonstrate the benefits of a new social identity, in terms of increases in psychological resilience, flow predominantly to those adolescents who report the lowest levels of resilience at the start of the voyage. We discuss our findings in relation to the social identity approach and adolescent identity development more generally.

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                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
                plos
                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                10 January 2019
                2019
                : 14
                : 1
                : e0210521
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
                [2 ] School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
                [3 ] School of Physical Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
                [4 ] Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Australia
                Harvard University, UNITED STATES
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                ‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-8059
                Article
                PONE-D-18-28104
                10.1371/journal.pone.0210521
                6328232
                30629716
                8d3e24f8-bda8-4823-9594-88d410f1d8bf
                © 2019 Koni et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 26 September 2018
                : 22 December 2018
                Page count
                Figures: 1, Tables: 4, Pages: 11
                Funding
                The authors received no specific funding for this work.
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                Medicine and Health Sciences
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