title: Shaping the Development of Prejudice: Latent Growth Modeling of the Influence of Social Dominance Orientation on Outgroup Affect in Youth.
abstract: Social dominance orientation (SDO) has been theorized as a stable, early-emerging trait influencing outgroup evaluations, a view supported by evidence from cross-sectional and two-wave longitudinal research. Yet, the limitations of identifying causal paths with cross-sectional and two-wave designs are increasingly being acknowledged. This article presents the first use of multi-wave data to test the over-time relationship between SDO and outgroup affect among young people. We use cross-lagged and latent growth modeling (LGM) of a three-wave data set employing Norwegian adolescents (over 2 years, N = 453) and a five-wave data set with American university students (over 4 years, N = 748). Overall, SDO exhibits high temporal rank-order stability and predicts changes in outgroup affect. This research represents the strongest test to date of SDO's role as a stable trait that influences the development of prejudice, while highlighting LGM as a valuable tool for social and political psychology.
authors.affiliation: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK christopher.bratt@gmail.com.|Regional Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway (RBUP), Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bratt
authors.affiliation: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sidanius
authors.affiliation: London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sheehy-Skeffington
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009664:Norway; D011287:Prejudice; D012930:Social Dominance; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: latent growth modeling; longitudinal studies; outgroup affect; prejudice; social dominance orientation