Host culture Adoption or Intercultural Contact? Comparing different acculturation conceptualizations and their effects on host members’ attitudes towards immigrants

The double-edged effect of intergroup similarity: Muslim and Christian immigrants’ acculturation preferences on intergroup relations in Sweden

“…This built upon procedures previously used by Matera et al (2011Matera et al ( , 2012Matera et al ( , 2015, Celeste et al (2014) and Tip (2012).…”

“…Based on our findings, future research on acculturation preferences and intergroup relations needs to take into account religious similarity between the majority and the minority, when extrapolating findings from one acculturative context to another. 3 A power analysis using the G*Power computer program (Erdfelder, Faul, & Buchner, 1996) indicated that a minimum sample of 314 would be needed to detect small to medium effects (Cohen's f = .2; based on results by Matera et al, 2012) with 95% power using an ANCOVA with alpha at .05.…”

Majority–minority acculturation preferences concordance as an antecedent of attitudes towards immigrants: The mediating role of perceived symbolic threat and metastereotypes

“…The effects of the desire for contact dimension (Berry, 1997) were noticeably stronger than those of the desire for culture maintenance dimension. Both in Italy (Matera et al, 2011(Matera et al, , 2012 and in California, USA (Celeste et al, 2014), two quite different intergroup contexts, immigrants' perceived desire for contact seemed to be more relevant in influencing host members' attitudes than their perceived desire for culture maintenance. These findings are in line with previous correlational and experimental evidence that suggests that immigrants' desire for contact is the main determinant of the majority attitudes towards immigrants (Kosic, Mannetti, & Sam, 2005;van Oudenhoven, Prins, & Buunk, 1998;Zagefka & Brown, 2002).…”

“…Why is desire for contact on the part of immigrants so appreciated by majority group members? The relationship between immigrants' desire for intercultural contact and majority members' attitudes towards them seems to be mediated by metastereotypes (Matera et al, 2011) and perceived symbolic threat (Matera et al, 2011(Matera et al, , 2012. In several independent studies Matera et al (2011Matera et al ( , 2012 found that host members' attitudes towards immigrants were influenced by host members' metastereotypes, which can be defined as the beliefs about the stereotypes that an outgroup holds about the ingroup (Vorauer, Main, & O'Connell, 1998); in turn, metastereotypes seemed to be affected by the immigrant group's perceived desire for contact.…”

“…Recent experimental evidence suggested that host members' attitudes towards immigrants are affected by immigrants' preferences for acculturation, with a substantial difference between the role of immigrants' desire for contact and immigrants' desire for culture maintenance (Celeste, Brown, Tip, & Matera, 2014;Matera, Stefanile, & Brown, 2011, 2012; perceptions of immigrants' desire for contact strongly impacted majority members' attitudes towards them: more favourable attitudes were expressed towards immigrants who seemed to endorse a desire for contact with the majority group. The effects of the desire for contact dimension (Berry, 1997) were noticeably stronger than those of the desire for culture maintenance dimension.…”