TY - JOUR
T1 - Patriotism and the impact on perceived threat and immigration attitudes
AU - Willis-Esqueda, Cynthia
AU - Delgado, Rosa Hazel
AU - Pedroza, Karina
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PY - 2017/1/2
Y1 - 2017/1/2
N2 - Patriotism and threat have been shown to predict immigration attitudes. We suggest that patriotism is influential in producing threat, and such threat drives anti-immigration attitudes, but this relationship is different for Whites and Latinos. All participants completed a patriotism scale (blind and constructive patriotism measures), a threat scale (realistic and symbolic threat), and anti-immigration attitude scale. Latinos showed lower blind patriotism, realistic threat, symbolic threat, and anti-immigration attitudes compared to Whites, with no differences in constructive patriotism. Threat partially mediated the relationship between blind patriotism and anti-immigration attitudes for Whites and fully mediated the relationship for Latinos. Threat partially mediated the relationship for cultural patriotism and anti-immigration attitude for Whites but not for Latinos. Implications for public policy and education concerning immigrant attitudes are discussed.
AB - Patriotism and threat have been shown to predict immigration attitudes. We suggest that patriotism is influential in producing threat, and such threat drives anti-immigration attitudes, but this relationship is different for Whites and Latinos. All participants completed a patriotism scale (blind and constructive patriotism measures), a threat scale (realistic and symbolic threat), and anti-immigration attitude scale. Latinos showed lower blind patriotism, realistic threat, symbolic threat, and anti-immigration attitudes compared to Whites, with no differences in constructive patriotism. Threat partially mediated the relationship between blind patriotism and anti-immigration attitudes for Whites and fully mediated the relationship for Latinos. Threat partially mediated the relationship for cultural patriotism and anti-immigration attitude for Whites but not for Latinos. Implications for public policy and education concerning immigrant attitudes are discussed.
KW - Immigration
KW - Latinos
KW - patriotism
KW - threat
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U2 - 10.1080/00224545.2016.1184125
DO - 10.1080/00224545.2016.1184125
M3 - Article
C2 - 27136269
AN - SCOPUS:84973100982
SN - 0022-4545
VL - 157
SP - 114
EP - 125
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 1
ER -