Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline. Issue 2 (June 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hodgetts, Darrin; Hopner, Veronica; Carr, Stuart; Bar-Tal, Daniel; Liu, James H.; Saner, Raymond; Yiu, Lichia; Horgan, John; Searle, Rosalind H; Massola, Gustavo; Hakim, Moh A.; Marai, Leo; King, Pita; Moghaddam, Fathali
• Is Part Of: Review of general psychology. Volume 27:Issue 2(2023)
• Page Start: 177
• Page End: 193
• Publication Date: 2023-06
• Subjects: Human security -- assemblage -- risk -- general -- psychology -- interconnected self; Psychology -- Periodicals; 150
• DOI: 10.1177/10892680221109124
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1089-2680

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.