Abstract
The recognition and representation of BAME community as ‘high risk’ of Covid-19 in the UK presents both a health and an identity threat to this ethnic group. This study employed thematic analysis to explore response to these threats as related by a sample of 13 middle class members of the South Asian community. This work advances both health and identity psychological theory by recognising the affinity between expressions of health efficacy and identity. Our findings identify South Asian intragroup stigmatisation and commonalities that have implications for the promotion of health behaviour and health communications for minority groups.
Highlights
Mitigating the identity and health threat of COVID-19: Perspectives of Middle-Class South Asians living in the United Kingdom (UK)
In the UK, the largest non-White ethnic group is comprised of people of South Asian (7.0%, Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani) ethnicities (Office for National Statistics, 2013)
Through thematic analysis, three themes were developed: (1) Contesting the ‘South Asian community’ as an important category, (2) Enacting self-efficacy: Taking responsibility to mitigate personal health risk, and (3) Constructing the integrated immigrant identity. These themes collectively create a narrative for the management of the identity and health threat, created primarily through participants’ positioning of themselves in relation to other members of the South Asian community
Summary
Mitigating the identity and health threat of COVID-19: Perspectives of Middle-Class South Asians living in the UK. This study employed thematic analysis to explore response to these threats as related by a sample of thirteen middle class members of the South Asian community. This work advances both health and identity psychological theory by recognising the affinity between expressions of health efficacy and identity. In the UK, the largest non-White ethnic group is comprised of people of South Asian (7.0%, Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani) ethnicities (Office for National Statistics, 2013). Socio-economic challenges, such as being poorer, material deprivation, high-risk occupation/ front-line public-facing jobs, the location of residence, household composition and overcrowding in housing, with extended family in multi-generational households, with implications for transmission from younger to older and more vulnerable household members (Dhillon et al, 2020; Mamluk and Jones, 2020)
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