The aspect of a person's self-understanding associated with group memberships and their significance. A common social identity can coexist with meaningful subgroup identities.
A perceived challenge to the value, recognition or continuity of an identity. An ostensibly inclusive category can threaten a subgroup when inclusion is understood to require abandoning its distinctive identity.
Concurrent representation of a shared superordinate identity and distinct subgroup identities. For example, different departments can remain recognizable within one university. Dual identity can combine inclusion with distinctiveness, but its effects depend on whether both memberships are credible and valued.
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