TY - JOUR
T1 - Multicultural attitudes mediate the relation between personality and perceived ethnic outgroup distance in the Netherlands
AU - Stupar - Rutenfrans, S
AU - van der Vijver, FJR
AU - Te Lindert, A
AU - Fontaine, JRJ
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We focus in the current study on associations between personality, multicultural attitudes, and perceived ethnic outgroup distance in the Netherlands. Data were collected among four different ethnic groups (from low to high in terms of ethnic hierarchy): Turkish/Moroccan-Dutch, Antillean/Surinamese-Dutch, Mixed Western immigrants, and Dutch majority group members. We found support for a mediation model in which in all groups multicultural attitudes mediate the relation between personality traits, education level, and age as antecedents, and outgroup distance as outcome; age was the only antecedent that also had a direct effect on outcome. Education was positively related to multiculturalism in the groups high in the hierarchy and unrelated in the groups low in the hierarchy. The association between multicultural attitudes and outgroup distance was negative and stronger for the groups higher in the ethnic hierarchy; hierarchy was unrelated to outgroup distance. Groups higher in the hierarchy scored lower on multicultural attitudes. It was concluded that multicultural attitudes and outgroup distance are important for understanding intergroup dynamics in ethnically diverse societies.
AB - We focus in the current study on associations between personality, multicultural attitudes, and perceived ethnic outgroup distance in the Netherlands. Data were collected among four different ethnic groups (from low to high in terms of ethnic hierarchy): Turkish/Moroccan-Dutch, Antillean/Surinamese-Dutch, Mixed Western immigrants, and Dutch majority group members. We found support for a mediation model in which in all groups multicultural attitudes mediate the relation between personality traits, education level, and age as antecedents, and outgroup distance as outcome; age was the only antecedent that also had a direct effect on outcome. Education was positively related to multiculturalism in the groups high in the hierarchy and unrelated in the groups low in the hierarchy. The association between multicultural attitudes and outgroup distance was negative and stronger for the groups higher in the ethnic hierarchy; hierarchy was unrelated to outgroup distance. Groups higher in the hierarchy scored lower on multicultural attitudes. It was concluded that multicultural attitudes and outgroup distance are important for understanding intergroup dynamics in ethnically diverse societies.
KW - Ethnic hierarchy
KW - Ethnic outgroup
KW - Multicultural attitudes
KW - Perceived ethnic outgroup distance
KW - Personality
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.05.002
M3 - Article
VL - 38
SP - 24
EP - 35
JO - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
JF - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
SN - 0147-1767
IS - January
ER -