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White, Randall P.; Ericksen, E. Gordon – 1976
A theoretical interface between the terms "reference group" and "significant others" is established. This is due to the terms having a common root in the classic problem of the self's referral to the other. In the elaboration of this interface a merging of such notions as positive and negative reference groups with two types of…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Identification (Psychology), Imitation, Individual Psychology