The social costs of extrinsic relative to intrinsic goal pursuits: their relation with social dominance and racial and ethnic prejudice.
Self-determination theory's distinction between extrinsic and intrinsic goal pursuits offers a possible explanation for ethnic and racial prejudice. Because extrinsic relative to intrinsic goal pursuits (E/I) stimulate interpersonal competition, they were expected to predict social dominance orientation (SDO), which, in turn, would predict racial and ethnic prejudice. Results of a first cross-sectional study showed that E/I goal pursuits are positively associated with prejudice and that SDO partially mediates this association. In a second longitudinal study, we replicated these results. In addition, however, we found evidence for a reciprocal relationship between E/I goal pursuit and SDO. Moreover, both E/I goal pursuit and SDO had an independent effect on increases in prejudice. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Duriez
Bart
B
Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Bart.Duriez@psy.kuleuven.be
Vansteenkiste
Maarten
M
Soenens
Bart
B
De Witte
Hans
H
D000293:Adolescent; D001530:Belgium; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012930:Social Dominance; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires