Andreo, Silvia (2024) Prejudice against lower educated second-generation immigrants as a function of cultural values. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This study aimed to see whether people from a mostly individualistic society (psychology students in the Netherlands) experience different levels of prejudice towards immigrants (second-generation Moroccan immigrants in Groningen) depending on their level of education and their cultural values (individualistic or collectivistic background). Participants were randomly assigned into four scenarios through a survey in a 2x2 factorial design, varying the levels of the independent variables education (high vs low) and cultural values (collectivistic vs individualistic cultures). Further questions were focused on investigating burden and competition threat (realistic threat) versus symbolic threat and negative stereotypes, according to integrated threat theory (ITT). The study aims to reveal the predominance of these threats and to minimize the prejudice paradox, which is the idea that an immigrant is perceived as a threat either by adapting too well to the norms of the host country or too low. ANOVA’s did not reveal any significant main or interaction effect on threat measures as hypothesized. Exploratory analysis revealed that participants rated immigrants warmer when they hold individualistic values, leaving the relationship between warmth perception and cultural ideology for further analysis.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Spears, R. and Greijdanus, H.J.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2024 11:21 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2024 11:21 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4467 |
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