Divided Loyalties: Identity Integration and Cultural Cues Predict Ingroup Favoritism Among Biculturals |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore;2. University of Dayton, United States;3. University of Michigan, United States;1. Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan;2. Department of Educational Psychology, Yangon University of Education, Yangon, Myanmar;3. Graduate School of Education and Developmental Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan;4. KDDI Research, Inc., Tokyo, Japan;5. International Education & Exchange Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan;1. Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, United States;2. College of Education and Human Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292, United States;1. Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;2. Graduate School of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China;1. University of Denver, United States;2. University of Dayton, United States;3. University of Michigan, United States;4. University of Victoria, Canada |
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| Abstract: | How do biculturals, or individuals who identify with more than one culture, manage their loyalties between two cultural ingroups? We argue that this process is moderated by Bicultural Identity Integration (BII), or individual differences in perceived conflict between two cultural identities. Two quasi-experiments examined biculturals’ preferences for two competing groups, each representing one of their cultural identities, in response to cultural primes. In Study 1, we found that Flemish-Belgian biculturals with low BII, or those who perceive their cultural identities as conflicting, favored the primed cultural group less than the unprimed cultural group. In Study 2, we found the same effect among Asian-American biculturals, but only when the cultural primes were positive. These findings show that low BIIs exhibit psychological reactance to cultural primes that are seen as threatening to the self, which in turn affect their loyalties to competing cultural ingroups. |
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| Keywords: | Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) Cultural Prime Cultural Identity Ingroup Favoritism Psychological Reactance Flemish-Belgian Biculturals Asian-American Biculturals |
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