Abstract
Xenophobia can be defined as negative prejudice towards strangers. It can also be defined as the hatred of foreigners. Psychological resilience is an independent source of resistance and a personality-based tendency to mitigate and overcome the effects of a stressful life. Psychological resilience has three dimensions; commitment, control, and challenge. A review of xenophobia, in terms of psychological resilience, has not been examined yet. This study examines the xenophobic opinions and attitudes of Turkish citizens living in Istanbul against more than 4 million immigrants with various legal status in Turkey in terms of psychological resilience. As a result of the study, it was observed that psychological resilience did not function as resistance against xenophobia. This result is obtained since two of the three factors representing psychological resilience strengthen the xenophobia.
Highlights
In the transition from traditional society to modern society, psychological changes that influence human nature have been occurred
In terms of the relationship between resilience subdimensions and xenophobia, it has been determined that the dependent variable is xenophobia; the independent variable is the dimensions of commitment, challenge, and control, it was examined by the regression analysis method that p
The result of this study shows that Turkish society has a high potential to live with immigrants
Summary
In the transition from traditional society to modern society, psychological changes that influence human nature have been occurred. The sense of relative security and belonging provided to the individual by the traditional social structure has eroded (Fromm, 2011). There is no natural and definite fixed place allocated in the economic and social order; the individual is left alone in modern society. Everything has become dependent on his/her effort of the individual, not the security provided by his/her traditional position. A person’s relationship with the people in society is an enemy and foreign relationship (Bauman, 2014). Individuals of this society are in a distant and competitive relationship with each other in daily life, the consciousness of “we” is established differently
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