Abstract
This study examines the effects of two interethnic ideologies (assimilation and multiculturalism) on in-group favoritism and discrimination intention toward immigrants. Specifically, this study aims to test the concomitant impact of these two ideologies on intergroup biases in order to affirm whether these two paths are related to intergroup bias. Moreover, this study is designed to extend previous work that found relationships between interethnic ideologies and in-group favoritism to discrimination intention. Graduate students in management programs (N = 182) answered a questionnaire. The findings show that both interethnic ideologies are concomitantly related to in-group favoritism. In particular, while assimilation is positively related to in-group favoritism, multiculturalism is negatively related to in-group favoritism. Additionally, it shows evidence of indirect relationships between interethnic ideologies and the discrimination intention through in-group favoritism. The results are discussed in light of interethnic ideologies literature and presents directions for future research.
Highlights
Societies today are increasingly culturally diverse, meaning that people from different origins are living together (e.g., [1])
Based on interethnic ideologies literature, our study investigated the relationships between interethnic ideologies on the one hand and in-group favoritism and the intention to discriminate on the other
The negative relationship between multiculturalism and in-group favoritism remains significant when assimilation is introduced as a control; the same result is observed for assimilation controlling for multiculturalism
Summary
Societies today are increasingly culturally diverse, meaning that people from different origins are living together (e.g., [1]). To improve our knowledge regarding this impediment, scholars working in the field of intergroup relationships have proposed that interethnic ideologies of diversity (i.e., beliefs about how to manage diversity in diverse societies) can reduce discrimination and even more broadly reduce intergroup bias 1. These ideologies have already been examined within educational and national contexts but only a few studies have directly made use of them within workplaces (e.g., [5,6]). A threefold contribution will be made to interethnic ideologies literature regarding (1) the concomitant impact of interethnic ideologies; (2) the investigated dependent variables; and (3) the role of bias as an underlying process
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