Linguistic Discrimination Toward Roma: Can Intergroup Threat Enhance Bias?

J Applied Social Pyschol

Prati

Sangiorgi

et al. 2019

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The healthcare services network is a recent organizational structure of healthcare services that are interdependent and organized as a network on the basis of the Hub‐and‐Spoke model. This questionnaire‐based study analyzed socio‐psychological well‐being of health workers both in terms of team‐related experience and individual satisfaction and engagement with one's work in a Hub‐and‐Spoke healthcare service in comparison to non‐network healthcare service. Workers from two different public healthcare services involved in the treatment of the same skeletal rare diseases participated in the Study. We expected that working under a Hub‐and‐Spoke healthcare service—involving teamwork and cooperation among different healthcare services within the units, as well as among workers belonging to different units—would lead to greater psychological team‐related and individual benefits. In line with predictions, the findings showed that under a Hub‐and‐Spoke healthcare service, health workers felt highly interdependent by their team fellows and developed shared cognitions (i.e., team mental models) about their integration and their tasks to a higher extent than non‐network ones. They were also individually more satisfied of their job and displayed higher work engagement than non‐network workers. Beneficial team‐related dynamics, such as perceived interdependence, were responsible for the differences between the Hub‐and‐Spoke workers and non‐network ones. The implications of the present findings were discussed in terms of promotion of health workers' satisfaction and well‐being.

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confidence: 99%

Does Hub‐and‐Spoke organization of healthcare system promote workers' satisfaction?

J Applied Social Pyschol

Prati

Sangiorgi

et al. 2019

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“…Given these premises, an experimental study was conducted on a sample of first-year university students to examine whether realistic and symbolic intergroup threat (versus no-threat) lead to a reduced attribution of the inalienability of human rights to migrants. Realistic and symbolic threat were manipulated through previously employed scenarios (Albarello et al, 2017(Albarello et al, , 2019Albarello and Rubini, 2018). In order to deepen knowledge of the psychological processes that lead individuals to deny human rights to migrants when threats (e.g., realistic and symbolic threat) are activated, the study also considered detrimental (fraternalistic relative deprivation) and beneficial (in-depth exploration of identity in the educational domain; identification with the human group) factors that could mediate such relation.…”

Section: The Current Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Once participants gave their informed consent, they were exposed to the threat manipulation and were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: no-threat, realistic threat, symbolic threat. Both realistic and symbolic threat were manipulated through a written scenario employed in previous research (Albarello et al, 2017(Albarello et al, , 2019Albarello and Rubini, 2018). The realistic threat scenario referred to the threat posed by migrants in terms of unemployment and costs of health and social welfare.…”

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confidence: 99%

At the roots of attribution of human rights to migrants

Rubini

2022

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThis study (N = 141, Mage = 20.15) aimed at deepening knowledge on the factors that can lead young adults to deny the inalienability of human rights to migrants by examining whether, under realistic and symbolic intergroup threat (versus no-threat), the denial of human rights to migrants increases. In doing so, the role of fraternalistic relative deprivation in mediating this relation was examined. Also, two potential positive factors were considered: in-depth exploration of personal identity in the educational domain and identification with the human group. Intergroup threat was expected to enhance perceived relative deprivation, thus reducing the attribution of human rights to migrants. Such relation was expected to be mediated by those factors expressing complex views of self and others (in-depth exploration of identity in the educational domain and identification with the human group).MethodRealistic and symbolic threat were experimentally manipulated through a written scenario. In the no-threat condition, no scenario was presented.ResultsShowed significant effects of intergroup threat on the attribution of human rights to migrants, on perceived fraternalistic relative deprivation, on in-depth exploration of identity in the educational domain and identification with the human group. More specifically, intergroup realistic threat, but not symbolic threat, reduced the attribution of human rights to migrants and identification with the human group. Symbolic threat, but not realistic threat, increased the perception of fraternalistic relative deprivation, whereas both realistic and symbolic threat reduced in-depth exploration of identity in the educational domain, and identification with the human group. As shown by the sequential mediation analysis, and as expected, the effect of intergroup threat in reducing attribution of human rights to migrants was mediated by in-depth exploration of identity in the educational domain, identification with the human group, and fraternalistic relative deprivation. Implications of findings concerning the processes underlying identification with the human group and its beneficial effects in terms of humanization of a stigmatized outgroup were highlighted by stressing the intertwined nature of personal identity and social identity processes. The importance of complex views of self and others in helping to create inclusive generations of adults was also highlighted.

“…Italians consider Romania as the least hardworking country in Europe (Pew Research Center, ), and Romanians as having lower status than themselves (Albarello & Rubini, , ). They also see Romanians as delinquent, dishonest, and not very warm (Albarello, Foroni, Hewstone, & Rubini, ).…”

Section: Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Can We Identify with a Nation Low in Morality? The Heavy Weight of (Im)Morality in International Comparison

Moscatelli

Menegatti

et al. 2018

Political Psychology

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Research has shown that the perceived morality of the ingroup is a primary source of group pride and ingroup identification. The present research examined whether this is true even when a group has a poor reputation for morality in terms of dishonesty and corruption, such as in the case of Italians. To address this issue, two studies analyzed the role of the three fundamental dimensions of social judgment—morality, competence, and sociability—in predicting Italians’ identification with their nation when the salience of social comparison and the status of the comparison outgroup were varied. Findings showed that perceived morality predicted ingroup identification when participants did not engage in social comparison. Under salient social comparison, individuals based group identification on other dimensions: Perceived sociability was the main predictor of identification when respondents compared with a higher status outgroup (Germans; Study 1; N = 109), whereas perceived competence was the main predictor of identification when participants compared with a lower status outgroup (Romanians; Study 2; N = 121). Overall, findings showed compensation processes in social identification: When social comparison is salient, members of a low morality group base identification on the dimension which allows positive differentiation from the outgroup.