Patriotism and the impact on perceived threat and immigration attitudes

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 an...

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Published in:The Journal of social psychology 2017-01, Vol.157 (1), p.114-125
Main Authors: Willis-Esqueda, Cynthia, Delgado, Rosa Hazel, Pedroza, Karina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Attitude
Attitudes
Emigrants and Immigrants
European Continental Ancestry Group - ethnology
Fear
Female
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans - psychology
Humans
Immigration
Latinos
Male
Patriotism
threat
Young Adult
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-4545
1940-1183
DOI:10.1080/00224545.2016.1184125