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

“…To assess intergroup emotions toward people with deafness, participants were presented with a list of 8 positive emotional adjectives (sympathy, curiosity, friendliness, trust, solidarity, admiration, attractiveness, happiness) (see Celeste et al, 2014;Kosic, Mannetti, & Sam, 2005;Matera et al, 2011Matera et al, , 2012Matera et al, , 2015. Intergroup emotions were measured on a 7-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 7 (very much).…”

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I Like You More if I Think You Like Me: The Effect of Metastereotypes on Attitudes Toward People With Deafness

Matera

Verde

Meringolo

2015

The Journal of Social Psychology

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In the present article we aimed at investigating the role of metastereotypes and gender on hearing people's attitudes towards people with deafness. Ninety-six Italian hearing adults participated in a 2 × 2 experimental study. Participants were presented with the results of a fictitious but apparently real survey concerning the opinions people with deafness have of hearing people. Metastereotypes (positive vs. negative) were manipulated through this presentation. Results showed that metastereotypes interacted with participants' gender in determining their attitudes towards people with deafness: when positive metastereotypes were activated, women's attitudes appeared more favorable toward people with deafness if compared to the negative metastereotypes condition. No effect of metastereotypes was observed among male participants. In conclusion, the activation of metastereotypes can be a useful means in intervening to improve attitudes toward people with deafness.

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“…Only recently, empirical evidence highlighted that acculturation strategies and expectancies can also vary among generations. On the one hand, cultural adaptation can be more difficult for those who arrive as adults to a different country, as they have already established identities and/or less educational and socialization opportunities (e.g., Cheung, Chudek & Heine, 2011;Pumariega & Rothe, 2010); on the other hand, RCMs seem to be more tolerant towards 1 st generation immigrants who want to maintain aspects of their cultural background than towards that same desire in 2 nd generation immigrants (Kunst & Sam, 2013;2014;Matera, Stefanile & Brown, 2015). Acculturation research has also shown that the challenges posed to identity vary across 1 st and 2 nd gen. immigrants and that the negotiation of identity can be especially problematic for the latter because they are torn between two cultures (Phinney & Rosenthal, 1992).…”

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Acculturation in the discourse of immigrants and receiving community members: Results from a cross-national qualitative study.

Fedi¹,

Mannarini²,

Brodsky³

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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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This study explores the bidirectional and interactional process of acculturation from the perspectives of immigrants and receiving community members (RCMs). Our aim was to understand the experiences and interactions of different ethno-cultural groups and their impact on the functioning and dynamics of multicultural communities. We conducted a cross-national, cross-cultural study of acculturation processes, using interviews collected across two countries (Italy: urban regions of Torino and Lecce; U.S.: Baltimore/Washington corridor) and three distinct groups of immigrants-Moroccans and Albanians in Italy and Latin Americans in the United States-and RCMs in Italy and the United States. Findings show that acculturation is a complex, situated, and dynamic process, and is generally conceived as an unbalanced and individual process of accommodation, which expects the immigrant alone to adapt to the new context. The boundaries among traditionally explored acculturation strategies were blurred and while integration was the most frequently discussed strategy, it often referenced a "soft" assimilation, limited mostly to public domains. Some differences emerged between ethnic groups and generation of immigration as well as among RCMs who differed by level of contact with immigrants. The need for more flexible models and for a critical perspective on acculturation is discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

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

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

I Like You More if I Think You Like Me: The Effect of Metastereotypes on Attitudes Toward People With Deafness

Acculturation in the discourse of immigrants and receiving community members: Results from a cross-national qualitative study.

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