Abstract
What predicts whether young people will establish contacts with immigrants? Students are at a pivotal point in which the campus environment can enable substantial contact with immigrants, and where world views and behavioural patterns are formed which can follow through their adult lives. Through a value-attitude-behavior paradigm we examine a conceptual model in which appraisal of an immigrant group as a threat and/or benefit to the host society mediates the relationship between personal values and contact. Findings among 252 students in Israel showed that (1) threat/benefit appraisal of immigrants predicted voluntary contact; (2) personal values of self-direction and hedonism directly predicted voluntary contact; and (3) Threat/benefit appraisal mediated the relationship between self-direction and power and contact. Results suggest that increasing awareness of benefits of immigrants can promote positive inter-group relations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 731-738 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | International Journal of Psychology |
Volume | 54 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |
Keywords
- Israel
- Threat/benefit appraisal of immigrants
- Values
- Voluntary contact
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- General Psychology