Positive and negative intergroup contact and shared reality: Contact effects among host society and refugees.
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| Title: | Positive and negative intergroup contact and shared reality: Contact effects among host society and refugees. |
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| Authors: | Lutterbach, Sebastian, Beelmann, Andreas |
| Source: | European Journal of Social Psychology. Feb2020, Vol. 50 Issue 1, p143-159. 17p. 2 Diagrams, 6 Charts. |
| Subjects: | Attitude (Psychology), Discrimination (Sociology), Ethnopsychology, Fear, Group identity, Interpersonal relations, Psychology of Minorities, Psychology of refugees, Cross-sectional method |
| Geographic Terms: | Syria, Germany |
| Abstract: | Two cross‐sectional studies examined the relationship between positive and negative intergroup contact and shared reality from a majority and a minority group perspective and indirect effects via two types of intergroup threat (threat to identity for the majority, discrimination fear for the minority) and differential closeness. Research was conducted in the context of German–Syrian relations to contrast contact effects on shared reality among German host society members and Syrian refugees. Study 1 revealed unique and asymmetrical effects of valenced contact on shared reality and indirect effects via threat to identity and differential closeness (N = 226). In Study 2, positive contact among Syrian refugees (N = 121) increased shared reality via differential closeness. Negative contact showed no relation to shared reality, but mediation analyses indicated an indirect effect via discrimination fear. Differences between majority and minority contact effects on shared reality are discussed along with the studies' limitations and implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | Two cross‐sectional studies examined the relationship between positive and negative intergroup contact and shared reality from a majority and a minority group perspective and indirect effects via two types of intergroup threat (threat to identity for the majority, discrimination fear for the minority) and differential closeness. Research was conducted in the context of German–Syrian relations to contrast contact effects on shared reality among German host society members and Syrian refugees. Study 1 revealed unique and asymmetrical effects of valenced contact on shared reality and indirect effects via threat to identity and differential closeness (N = 226). In Study 2, positive contact among Syrian refugees (N = 121) increased shared reality via differential closeness. Negative contact showed no relation to shared reality, but mediation analyses indicated an indirect effect via discrimination fear. Differences between majority and minority contact effects on shared reality are discussed along with the studies' limitations and implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 00462772 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ejsp.2601 |
