The Library
Self-protection and growth as the motivational force behind majority group members’ cultural adaptation and discrimination : a parallel mediation model via intergroup contact and threat
Tools
Lefringhausen, Katharina, Ferenczi, Nelli and Marshall, Tara C. (2020) Self-protection and growth as the motivational force behind majority group members’ cultural adaptation and discrimination : a parallel mediation model via intergroup contact and threat. International Journal of Psychology, 55 (4). pp. 532-542. doi:10.1002/ijop.12620 ISSN 0020-7594.
|
PDF
WRAP-self-protection-growth-motivational-force-majority-mediation-threat-Lefringhausen-2019.pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (1176Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12620
Abstract
What motivates majority group members to adapt to or reject cultural diversity? Considering the relevance of personal values on our attitudes and behaviours, we inspected how self‐protection and growth predict levels of discriminatory behavioural and cultural adaptation intentions towards migrants via intergroup contact and perceived intergroup threats, simultaneously (i.e., parallel mediation). Specifically, positive contact between groups is known for reducing prejudice through diminishing perceived intergroup threats. Yet current research emphasises the role of individual differences in this interplay while proposing a parallel relationship between perceived intergroup threats and contact. Also by inspecting cultural adaptation and discriminatory behavioural intentions, the present study examined more proximal indicators of real‐world intergroup behaviours than explored in past research. Using data from 304 US Americans, structural equation modelling indicated a good fit for a parallel mediation model with growth relating positively to cultural adaptation intentions and negatively to discriminatory behavioural intentions through being positively associated with intergroup contact and negatively with perceived intergroup threats, simultaneously. The reverse was found for self‐protection. These findings stress that personal values constitute a relevant individual difference in the contact/threats‐outcome relationship, providing a motivational explanation for majority group members' experience of cultural diversity in their own country.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Values, Rejection (Psychology), Acculturation, Intergroup relations, Group identity, Cultural pluralism | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Psychology Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0020-7594 | ||||||||
Official Date: | August 2020 | ||||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||||
Volume: | 55 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 532-542 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/ijop.12620 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Lefringhausen, K., Ferenczi, N. and Marshall, T. C. (2019), Self‐protection and growth as the motivational force behind majority group members' cultural adaptation and discrimination: A parallel mediation model via intergroup contact and threat. Int J Psychol., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12620. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 August 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 September 2021 | ||||||||
Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year