Cultural Inclusiveness Contributing to International Students' Intercultural Attitudes: Mediating Role of Intergroup Contact Variables

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne L. Tawagi ◽  
Anita S. Mak
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Cultural Inclusiveness

Fusion of “You and Me”: Cultural Mixing Promotes Intergroup Psychological Compatibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 353-369
Author(s):  
Yan Bao ◽  
Yufang Zhao ◽  
Zilun Xiao ◽  
Fangmei Liang ◽  
Weichao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Culture Study ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Ingroup Outgroup

Previous research has mainly examined individuals’ attitudes to cultural mixing per se, and rarely examined the attitudes to the outgroup involved in cultural mixing. Exposure to ingroup–outgroup cultural mixing may be an indirect intergroup contact, which can promote individuals’ psychological compatibility toward the corresponding cultural outgroup. We measured Chinese Yi undergraduates’ experience of Yi-Tibetan cultural mixing in Study 1 and found it was significantly correlated with psychological compatibility toward Tibetans. We then used a between-subjects design and experimentally manipulated Yi participants’ exposure to cultural mixing to verify the causal effect of exposure to Yi-Dai cultural mixing on psychological compatibility toward Dai (the Yi and Dai are two of the 55 ethnic minorities in China from different provinces and have their own unique culture; Study 2) and the mediating role of perceived connection (Studies 3 and 4). These findings suggest that exposure to cultural mixing facilitates intergroup psychological compatibility, and this beneficial effect is mediated by perceived connection.

scholarly journals Investigating the relationship between intergroup physical contact and attitudes towards foreigners: the mediating role of quality of intergroup contact

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soraya E. Shamloo ◽  
Andrea Carnaghi ◽  
Carlo Fantoni
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship

Recent research has shown that a brief, casual touch administered by an outgroup member reduces prejudice towards the group to which the toucher belongs. In this study, we take the research on physical contact and prejudice a step further by addressing the relation between individuals’ amount of Experienced Intergroup Physical Contact (EIPC), across distinct contexts and involving different body parts, and attitudes towards foreign people. Specifically, we hypothesized that the amount of EIPC would be positively associated with both quantity and quality of intergroup contact, but that only quality would mediate the relationship between the amount of EIPC and outgroup attitudes, quality being more directly linked to the evaluative component of outgroup attitudes. To attain this aim, we asked participants to self-report the amount of EIPC, the quantity and quality of their intergroup contact and their attitudes towards foreign people. Consistent with our hypothesis: (1) as EIPC increased, positive attitudes towards foreign people increased; (2) higher levels of EIPC were associated with better quality and higher quantity of intergroup contact; (3) only quality of intergroup contact mediated the relationship between the amount of EIPC and attitudes towards foreign people. Results were discussed in relation to research on intergroup contact and physical contact.

scholarly journals Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Huseyin Çakal ◽  
Samer Halabi ◽  
Ana-Maria Cazan ◽  
Anja Eller
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Intergroup Anxiety ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Ingroup Identification ◽  
Action Tendencies

Three studies investigated the effect of intergroup contact and social identification on social change among three advantaged groups in Cyprus, Romania, and Israel. In Study 1 ( n = 340, Turkish Cypriots), intergroup contact with disadvantaged immigrant Turks positively predicted endorsement of their social change motivations directly, and via intergroup trust and perspective-taking indirectly. In Study 2 ( n = 200, Romanians), contact with the ethnic minority Hungarians positively predicted endorsement of their social change motivations via intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety, while ingroup identification negatively predicted endorsement of Hungarian ethnic minority’s collective action tendencies via perspective-taking and anxiety. In Study 3 ( n = 240, Israeli Jews), intergroup contact positively predicted, while ingroup identification negatively predicted, endorsement of disadvantaged Israeli Palestinian citizens’ social change motivations via perspective-taking, anxiety, and trust. Across three studies, results show that intergroup contact led the advantaged groups to attitudinally support social change motivations of the disadvantaged outgroups through increased trust, perspective-taking, and reduced anxiety, whereas ingroup identification weakened their intention to support social change motivations via perspective-taking and intergroup anxiety in Study 2, and via intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety in Study 3.

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