The Impact of Perceived Social Norms, Gender, and Intergroup Anxiety on the Relationship Between Intergroup Contact and Ethnic Attitudes of Adolescents1

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1877-1899 ◽  
Author(s):  
TUULI ANNA MÄHÖNEN ◽  
INGA JASINSKAJA-LAHTI ◽  
KARMELA LIEBKIND
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Intergroup Anxiety ◽  
Ethnic Attitudes ◽  
Perceived Social Norms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The impact of belongingness and graphic-based emoticon usage motives on emoticon purchase intentions for MIM: an analysis of Korean KakaoTalk users

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohee Jung ◽  
Hanku Kim ◽  
Seung Hwan (Shawn) Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Acceptance ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment ◽  
Perceived Social Norms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeAlthough graphic-based emoticons in mobile instant messenger (MIM) services became an important revenue source for their service provider, empirical research investigating factors influencing graphic-based emoticon purchase from the consumer's perspective is insufficient. The authors explore how user's achieved belongingness (acceptance or rejection) affects graphic based emoticon usage motivations and its purchase intentions.Design/methodology/approachA structural model is used to examine the relationship among individual's overall achieved belongingness, motivation factors of graphic-based emoticon usage in MIM such as perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment, perceived enjoyment for others, social norm and emoticon purchase intentions. The authors collected and analyzed survey data of 279 Korean KakaoTalk users.FindingsThe analysis shows that perceived acceptance/inclusion positively impacts perceived usefulness, enjoyment and enjoyment of others in graphic-based emoticon usage. Meanwhile, perceived rejection/exclusion positively impacts perceived enjoyment and enjoyment of others but negatively influences perceived social norms. Moreover, social norms and perceived enjoyment directly affect graphic-based emoticon purchase intentions. The authors also find that perceived enjoyment of others and perceived social norms in a serial causal order mediate the relationship between perceived acceptance/inclusion (and rejection/exclusion) and emoticon purchase intentions.Research limitations/implicationsAdditional research including users from other demographic groups, such as other age groups, is required to generalize our findings and to increase external validity.Originality/valueUnique implications related to the role of user's achieved belongingness and perceived enjoyment of others in graphic-based emoticon usage in purchase intentions are found.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/ 10.1108/OIR-02-2020-0036

scholarly journals Why Do People (Not) Engage in Social Distancing? Proximate and Ultimate Analyses of Norm-Following During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
James O. Norton ◽  
Kortnee C. Evans ◽  
Ayten Yesim Semchenko ◽  
Laith Al-Shawaf ◽  
David M. G. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Public Health Organizations ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Perceived Social Norms ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 has had a profound negative effect on many aspects of human life. While pharmacological solutions are being developed and implemented, the onus of mitigating the impact of the virus falls, in part, on individual citizens and their adherence to public health guidelines. However, promoting adherence to these guidelines has proven challenging. There is a pressing need to understand the factors that influence people’s adherence to these guidelines in order to improve public compliance. To this end, the current study investigated whether people’s perceptions of others’ adherence predict their own adherence. We also investigated whether any influence of perceived social norms was mediated by perceptions of the moral wrongness of non-adherence, anticipated shame for non-adherence, or perceptions of disease severity. One hundred fifty-two Australians participated in our study between June 6, 2020 and August 21, 2020. Findings from this preliminary investigation suggest that (1) people match their behavior to perceived social norms, and (2) this is driven, at least in part, by people using others’ behavior as a cue to the severity of disease threat. Such findings provide insight into the proximate and ultimate bases of norm-following behavior, and shed preliminary light on public health-related behavior in the context of a pandemic. Although further research is needed, the results of this study—which suggest that people use others’ behavior as a cue to how serious the pandemic is and as a guide for their own behavior—could have important implications for public health organizations, social movements, and political leaders and the role they play in the fight against epidemics and pandemics.

scholarly journals Cross-ethnic friendship self-efficacy: A new predictor of cross-ethnic friendships among children

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1049-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabahat C. Bagci ◽  
Lindsey Cameron ◽  
Rhiannon N. Turner ◽  
Catarina Morais ◽  
Afiya Carby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Indirect Contact ◽  
Intergroup Anxiety ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Prior Contact

Across two studies ( NStudy 1 = 101; NStudy 2 = 262) conducted among children in the UK, we incorporate Bandura’s (1986) self-efficacy theory to intergroup contact literature and introduce the new construct of cross-ethnic friendship self-efficacy (CEFSE), the belief that one can successfully form and maintain high-quality cross-ethnic friendships. Study 1 examined whether sources of CEFSE beliefs (prior contact, indirect contact, social norms, and intergroup anxiety) predicted higher quality cross-ethnic friendships through CEFSE. Study 2 replicated Study 1 and extended it by including perceived parental cross-ethnic friendship quality as a further predictor. In both studies, sources of self-efficacy beliefs (except social norms) were related to CEFSE, which predicted higher quality cross-ethnic friendships. Study 2 demonstrated that parental cross-ethnic friendships had direct and indirect associations with children’s cross-ethnic friendships through sources of CEFSE and CEFSE beliefs. Findings are discussed in the light of self-efficacy and intergroup contact theories.

scholarly journals The Role of Personality Factors in the Reduction of Intergroup Anxiety and Amelioration of Outgroup Attitudes via Intergroup Contact

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhiannon N. Turner ◽  
Kristof Dhont ◽  
Miles Hewstone ◽  
Andrew Prestwich ◽  
Christiana Vonofakou
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Prejudice Reduction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Intergroup Anxiety ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Potential Confound

Two studies investigated the role of personality factors in the amelioration of outgroup attitudes via intergroup contact. In study 1, the effect of extraversion on outgroup attitude operated via an increase in cross–group friendship, whereas openness to experience and agreeableness had a direct effect on outgroup attitude. In study 2, we included intergroup anxiety as a mediator explaining these relationships, and we ruled out ingroup friendship as a potential confound. We found that the relationships between openness to experience and agreeableness on the one hand and outgroup attitude on the other were mediated by reduced intergroup anxiety. In addition, the effect of extraversion on outgroup attitude operated via an increase in cross–group friendship that was in turn associated with lower levels of intergroup anxiety. Across both studies, the friendship–attitude relationship was stronger among those low in agreeableness and extraversion. We discuss the importance of integrating personality and situational approaches to prejudice reduction in optimizing the impact of contact–based interventions. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Group identification as a moderator of the relationship between perceived social norms and alcohol consumption.

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton Neighbors ◽  
Joseph W. LaBrie ◽  
Justin F. Hummer ◽  
Melissa A. Lewis ◽  
Christine M. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Perceived Social Norms ◽  
The Relationship

Norms

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Elster
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Fairness Norms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Political Norms ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between norms and action, making a distinction between social and moral norms, quasi-moral norms, legal norms, and conventions. It defines ‘social norm’ as a non-outcome-oriented injunction to act or to abstain from acting, sustained by the sanctions that others apply to norm violators. After explaining how social norms operate, the article considers some important or representative social norms, including work norms, tipping norms, queueing norms, fairness norms and political norms. It also compares social norms with other motivations to act and argues that social norms are ultimately sustained by the emotions of contempt (or indignation) and shame. Yet the influence of emotion on behavior is much larger than the impact mediated by social norms.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Intention of Engineering Students: The Role of Social Norms and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grigorios Asimakopoulos ◽  
Virginia Hernández ◽  
Javier Peña Miguel
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the impact of entrepreneurial education on intention to undertake entrepreneurial activity in the future. The study is based on a sample of 208 engineering students. Specifically, we explore the contingent effect of social norms on the relationship between entrepreneurial education and intention to undertake entrepreneurial activity, as well as the role of social norms on the association between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. We utilize a comprehensive questionnaire distributed among engineering students. Our findings indicate that entrepreneurial education is positively associated with the intention to undertake entrepreneurial activity, in addition to demonstrating a positive moderation effect role of social norms on the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. The study provides empirical support to devise new educational initiatives that can further support students and young entrepreneurs in their current or future entrepreneurial projects

The impact of self-construals and perceived social norms on social anxiety in young adults: a cross-cultural comparison

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia A. Essau ◽  
Patrick W.L. Leung ◽  
Selda Koydemir ◽  
Satoko Sasagawa ◽  
Jean O'Callaghan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Perceived Social Norms ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Perceived Social Norms and Agripreneurial Intention among Youths in Eastern DRC

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3442
Author(s):  
Akilimali Ndatabaye Ephrem ◽  
Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet ◽  
McEdward Murimbika ◽  
Zoumana Bamba ◽  
Victor Manyong
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Perceived Social Norms ◽  
Productivity Potential ◽  
The Relationship

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a country with a high agricultural productivity potential; however, the agribusiness sector remains unattractive to youths. This study examined the extent to which perceived social norms and psychological capital affect youths’ intentions to pursue agribusiness opportunities in the Eastern DRC. Data was collected on a sample of 600 youths. We applied Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS−SEM) in order to examine the relationship between the variables. The findings indicated that most of the youths did not select agribusiness as their top career choice. The intention to engage in agribusiness activities was significantly higher among the youths who perceived that agribusiness was socially valued and supported. Psychological capital significantly and positively affects youths’ agripreneurial intention. The findings contribute to the underlying Theory of Planned Behavior by supporting a positive mediation role of psychological capital—and the moderating roles of educational level, gender, access to land, and location—on the relationship between perceived social norms and agripreneurial intention. The paper concludes that the provision of funds is not enough to promote youth agripreneurship in an environment in which agricultural-related social norms, youths’ psychological capital, gender, access to land, educational level, and location (rural versus urban) are not thoroughly considered.

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