Ethnic group identification and group evaluation among minority and majority groups: testing the multiculturalism hypothesis.

By M. Verkuyten. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005

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Following social identity theory, the author hypothesized that members of minority groups are more likely than majority group members to endorse multiculturalism more strongly and assimilationist thinking less strongly. In addition, the multiculturalism hypothesis proposes that the more minority groups endorse the ideology of multiculturalism (or assimilationism), the more (or less) likely they will be to identify with their ethnic in-group and to show positive in-group evaluation. In contrast, the more majority group members endorse multiculturalism (or assimilationism), the less (or more) likely they are to identify with their ethnic group and to show negative out-group evaluation. Results from 4 studies (correlational and experimental) provide support for this hypothesis among Dutch and Turkish participants living in the Netherlands.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Support for Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: The Role of National Identification and Out-group Threat (2009, methodology): “National identification was assessed by asking the participants to respond to six items (same 5-point scales) that were taken from previous studies in the Netherlands (see Verkuyten, 2005).”
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Social identity contingencies: how diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions. (2008, background): “Policies with an assimilationist approach tend to emphasize changing the behavior and beliefs of the minority group to blend in with the majority group (see Fredrickson, 1999; Verkuyten, 2005).”
Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Inferences of Secondary Emotions and Intergroup Helping (2007, background): “Moreover, others have shown that racial and ethnic minority group members express stronger outgroup stereotypes and greater intergroup bias than majority group members ( Judd, Park, Ryan, Brauer, & Kraus, 1995; Verkuyten, 2005).”
Assimilation ideology and outgroup attitudes among ethnic majority members (2011, methodology): “Assimilation 1Utrecht University, The Netherlands Corresponding author: Maykel Verkuyten, ERCOMER, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.”
Assessing teachers' multicultural and egalitarian beliefs : The Teacher Cultural Beliefs Scale (2011, background): “…beliefs; however, these studies have not targeted teachers (Markus et al., 2002; Park & Judd, 2005; Plaut, Thomas, & Goren, 2009; Richeson & Nussbaum, 2004; Verkuyten, 2005; Vorauer, Gagnon, & Sasaki, 2009; Wolsko et al., 2002; Wolsko, Park, & Judd, 2006; Wolsko, Park, Judd, & Wittenbrink, 2000).”
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How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity (2014, background): “…individual engages with both category representations of the host and home cultures; this strategy is also most endorsed among minority members (Dovidio, Gaertner, & Saguy, 2009; Verkuyten, 2005) and leads to the development of the type of dual engagement that is at the heart of the current model.”