Social Dominance Orientation, Realistic and Symbolic Threat: Effects on Italians' Acculturation Orientations, Intergroup Attitudes and Emotions Toward Immigrants
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In this study, realistic and symbolic threat were tested as mediators of the effects of Social Domi/ nance Orientation (SDO; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) on acculturation orientations, intergroup attitudes and emotions. One/hundred Italian undergraduates completed one of three versions of a questionnaire, each evoking a different target group : immigrants in general, Moroccans, Chinese. We predicted that the effects of SDO on acculturation orientations would be mediated by realistic threat in the employ/ ment domain and by symbolic threat in the culture domain; both threats should mediate the SDO/ intergroup attitudes and emotions relationship. Results showed, partially supporting predictions, media/ tion effects by realistic threat on integrationism (employment domain), intergroup attitudes and emo/ tions, and by symbolic threat on assimilationism (culture domain). Evidence of moderated mediation emerged in the path from predictor to mediator: SDO increased realistic threat more for immigrants in general and Moroccans than for Chinese. Theoretical and practical implications of findings are dis/ cussed.
Authors: Loris Vezzali, Dino Giovannini
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2330025588