Guimond, S., & Dubé-Simard, L. (1983). Relative deprivation theory and the Quebec nationalist movement: The cognition–emotion distinction and the personal–group deprivation issue. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(3), 526-535.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.44.3.526
Investigated the effect of unfavorable intergroup comparisons on feelings of group discontent and the importance of various types of relative deprivation (RD) to explain militant sociopolitical attitudes (nationalism). 80 22–50 yr old Francophones answered a questionnaire that either informed them that according to several studies, Francophones have a lower average annual income than Anglophones or did not inform them at all. Results reveal that informed Ss perceived a wider economic difference between groups than uninformed Ss, but this manipulation had no effect on other variables including fraternal RD (group discontent). The feeling of fraternal RD was as strongly related to a global index of nationalism as the perceived economic gap between the groups. In contrast, measures of egoistic RD (personal discontent) were not related to this index. Results support theories that conceptualize RD as being more than simply a cognition or a perception of deprivation and imply that fraternal RD, rather than egoistic RD as current theories suggest, is an important factor in the explanation of protest movements. (50 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)