Abstract
A survey (N=810) on students, student’s relatives and general population, studies attitudes beliefs towards immigration in Spain (Basque Country, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Salamanca. The negative attitude towards immigration was in multivariate analysis related to perceived social and cultural threat, high emotional worry and low approach emotional action tendencies. Disconfirming “poor racism” first and second generation internal immigrants (extremeños, andalusians, castillians and galicians living in the Basque Country) show a more positive attitude towards the new immigration than natives Basques. At collective level, prejudice towards inmigrants was related to social threat, low level of inmigrants in the national population, collectivistic and high power distance cultures. Social threat or low socio-economic development was the specific factor predicting a negative attitude towards migrants.
| Translated title of the contribution | Factores predictores de las actitudes ante la inmigración |
|---|---|
| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 19-37 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | International Journal of Social Psychology |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Actitudes y creencias
- Amenaza social y simbólica percibida
- Attitudes and beliefs
- Ignorancia pluralista
- Immigration
- Inmigración
- Perceived social and symbolic threat
- Pluralistic ignorance
- Prejudice
- Prejuicio