Human security psychology: a linking construct for an eclectic discipline

Hodgetts, D. et al. (2023) Human security psychology: a linking construct for an eclectic discipline. Review of General Psychology, 27(2), pp. 177-193. (doi: 10.1177/10892680221109124)

Abstract

Since its inception as a modern and evolving discipline, psychology has been concerned with issues of human security. This think piece offers an initial conceptualisation of human security as a broad security concept that encompasses a range of interrelated dimensions that have been responded to by different sub-disciplinary domains within psychology. We advance an argument for a human security psychology as a connecting focal point for general psychology that enables us to bring knowledge from across our eclectic discipline into further dialogue. This is a necessary step in understanding better the state of current thinking on the psychology of security and as a basis for informing further theory, research and practice efforts to address issues of human (in)security. This initial effort is informed by Assemblage Theory, which offers a dynamic and contextually rich perspective on people as agentive beings entangled within evolving natural and social formations that can foster or undermine their experiences of [in]security. The article is completed with a brief agenda for advancing human security psychology.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Searle, Professor Rosalind
• Authors: Hodgetts, D., Hopner, V., Carr, S., Bar-Tal, D., Liu, J. H., Saner, R., Yiu, L., Horgan, J., Searle, R. H., Massola, G., Hakim, M. A., Marai, L., King, P., and Moghaddam, F.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Management
• Journal Name: Review of General Psychology
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• ISSN: 1089-2680
• ISSN (Online): 1939-1552
• Published Online: 24 June 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © The Author(s) 2022
• First Published: First published in Review of General Psychology 27(2): 177-193
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy