The role of discordant acculturation attitudes in perceived threat: An analysis of host and immigrant attitudes in Germany |
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Authors: | Anette Rohmann Arnd Florack Ursula Piontkowski |
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Institution: | aPsychologisches Institut IV, Universität Münster, Fliednerstr. 21, 48149 Münster, Germany;bUniversity of Basel, Switzerland;cUniversity of Münster, Germany |
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Abstract: | The present research examines discordant acculturation attitudes of host society members and immigrants as an antecedent to intergroup threat. Based on integrated threat theory and the concordance model of acculturation, we posited that discordance on culture maintenance and on desire for contact would predict intergroup threat beyond the influence of other antecedents of threat, such as in-group identification, knowledge, and negative contact. A study with 202 German host society members and 151 Turkish and Italian immigrants was conducted. In line with our assumptions, path analyses revealed that culture discordance and contact discordance contribute independently to the prediction of realistic threat, symbolic threat, and intergroup anxiety for host society members and immigrants. Moreover, differences in threat between cultures were mediated by the discordance in acculturation attitudes. |
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Keywords: | Acculturation attitudes Concordance model of acculturation Intergroup threat Integrated threat theory |
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