title: The relation between societal factors and different forms of prejudice: A cross-national approach on target-specific and generalized prejudice.
abstract: The goal of this paper was to investigate the generalizability of prejudice across contexts by analyzing associations between different types of prejudice in a cross-national perspective and by investigating the relation between country-specific contextual factors and target-specific prejudices. Relying on the European Social Survey (2008), results indicated that prejudices were indeed positively associated, confirming the existence of a generalized prejudice component. Next to substantial cross-national differences in associational strength, also within country variance in target-specific associations was observed. This suggested that the motivations for prejudice largely vary according to the intergroup context. Two aspects of the intergroup context - economic conditions and cultural values - showed to be related to generalized and target-specific components of prejudice. Future research on prejudice and context should take an integrative approach that considers both the idea of generalized and specific prejudice simultaneously.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Sociological Research, University of Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Cecil.Meeusen@soc.kuleuven.be.
authors.forename: Cecil
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meeusen
authors.affiliation: Centre for Political Science, University of Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kern
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005006:Ethnicity; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011287:Prejudice; D012945:Social Values; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D044465:White People
keywords: Cultural values; Economic conditions; Europe; Generalized prejudice; Target-specific prejudice