title: Patriotism and the impact on perceived threat and immigration attitudes.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: a University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Willis-Esqueda
authors.affiliation: a University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
authors.forename: Rosa Hazel
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Delgado
authors.affiliation: a University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pedroza
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D044465:White People / Q000208:ethnology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Immigration; Latinos; patriotism; threat