title: Perceived ethnic superiority and immigrants' attitudes towards multiculturalism and the national majority.
abstract: Despite the recent multidimensional conceptualisations of social identities, previous research on the relationship between ingroup identification and outgroup attitudes has approached the former mainly through the strength of cognitive-emotional identification. In our study among Russian-speaking immigrants living in Finland (N = 312), we focused on the direct and interactive effects of the strength of ethnic identification and perceived ethnic superiority on immigrants' support for multiculturalism and outgroup attitudes towards national majority. First, we found perceived ethnic superiority to be directly and negatively associated with outgroup attitudes. Second, we found a positive relationship between ethnic identification and support for multiculturalism only when ethnic superiority was not perceived. The results highlight the different ramifications of high ethnic identification and perceived superiority and speak for the destructive attitudinal effects of the latter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Tuuli Anna
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Mähönen
authors.forename: Asteria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brylka
authors.forename: Inga
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jasinskaja-Lahti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D012929:Psychological Distance; D012426:Russia / Q000208:ethnology; D012933:Social Identification; D044465:White People
keywords: Ethnic identification; Outgroup attitudes; Perceived superiority; Support for multiculturalism