Multiculturalism, Culture Mixing, and Prejudice: Effects of Priming Chinese Diversity Models Among Hong Kong University Students

Ye, Buchtel · Frontiers in Psychology · 2021 · cultural-psychology · 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.691858 · record Ye2021-multiculturalism-culture-mixing-and-prejudic
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multiculturalism assimilation colorblindness social distance culture mixing social distancing Reading a societal diversity model first elicits an emotional reaction, and that emotional reaction is what carries the prime through to intergroup attitudes and identity A multicultural frame lowers the perceived threat to the local culture, which raises the perceived compatibility of the two cultures and so reduces disgust at their mixing Positive Emotion hybrid identity style alternating identity style social distancing from Mainland Chinese disgust toward Hong Kong-Mainland culture mixing multicultural identity styles age and gender t-test independent sample t-tests ANOVA An overall ANOVA predicting positive emotion eta squared (effect size) chi-squared test The Chi-square test ANCOVA ANCOVA tests with conditions as fixed factor, age and gender as covariates Tukey post hoc correction Post hoc analyses with Tukey correction effect size (Cohen's d) with confidence interval Pearson correlation Bivariate Pearson Correlations Cronbach's alpha (internal consistency) McDonald's omega (internal consistency) mediation / path analysis with maximum likelihood and robust standard errors tested in path analysis using lavaan Monte Carlo simulation power analysis post hoc power analysis ... with Monte Carlo simulation method Mahalanobis distance (outlier exclusion) excluded based on Mahalanobis distance behavioural-experiment

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limitationsConvenience sample of Hong Kong university students limits generalisation.
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limitationsIdentity measures were placed after the manipulation, so they could not be used as moderators.
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limitationsBecause the two identity styles were outcomes rather than predictors, their distinct functions could not be separated.
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controlsa CULTURAL control condition against the multicultural priming condition
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eliminates: that any culture-related prime reduces social distancing - the control is cultural in content and differs only in being multicultural · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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controlsparticipants randomly assigned to the priming or the no-prime condition on beginning the questionnaire
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sensesmulticulturalism against assimilation and colorblindness - THREE DIVERSITY MODELS ON ONE AXIS, and the axis is stated: whether cultural difference is APPRECIATED or IGNORED. Colorblindness and assimilation are put on the same side, which is a grouping this literature does not always make
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sensessocial distance, as measured here - a construct defined by the EXTENT of contact refused, from marriage down to co-residence in a city. The scale is the definition, which is what makes `prejudice` operational in this design
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sensesthe prime, in this study - not a word list or a photograph but A DESCRIPTION OF THE READER'S OWN COUNTRY: a passage about how China handles diversity, read by Hong Kong students who are both minority and majority culture members. The manipulation is a national self-description
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claim_relationscontradicts → Verkuyten (2005), on multiculturalism priming among Turkish minorities in the Netherlands
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claim_relationsbuilds-on → Todd and Galinsky (2012) multiculturalism priming materials
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claim_relationsbuilds-on → Stone and Crisp (2007) superordinate-identity assimilation priming material
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differs in: WHETHER CULTURAL DIFFERENCE IS APPRECIATED OR IGNORED - the paper states the axis rather than leaving it to be inferred, and puts colorblindness on the ignoring side with assimilation · strength of the relation: 0.95 · note: Two edges come out of this one clause. The grouping is the part worth noting: colorblindness and assimilation are often distinguished elsewhere and are treated here as one side of a single contrast.
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strength of the relation: 0.95 · note: The second half of the same contrast, kept as its own edge because a reader searching for either model should meet the axis at the same place.
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direction on the measure: reduces · strength of the relation: 0.85 · note: INDIRECT, and the paper says so: the route is through increased positive emotions, not directly. The same sentence reports the assimilation prime producing the opposite effects through negative emotions, which is the symmetry the design was built for.
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content_tagsIn Study 1 the multiculturalism prime lowered desire for social distance from Mainland Chinese relative to no prime, but left disgust toward culture mixing and national identity strength unchanged.
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content_tagsIn Study 2 the three primes produced direct effects only on emotion and on ethnic Chinese identity strength; social distancing, disgust and both identity styles showed no direct priming effect.
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content_tagsRelative to control, the multiculturalism prime raised positive emotion and thereby indirectly cut disgust toward culture mixing and raised ethnic identity strength, hybrid identity style and alternating identity style, with a marginal indirect reduction in social distancing.
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content_tagsThe assimilation prime produced the mirror-image indirect pattern, lowering positive emotion and thereby increasing social distancing and disgust while decreasing ethnic identity strength and both multicultural identity styles.
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content_tagsReading that Hong Kong is being assimilated into China lowered participants' ethnic identity strength compared with the control condition.
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content_tagsBreaking the affect composite apart, the beneficial multiculturalism effects ran specifically through pride, happiness and interest.
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content_tagsmulticulturalism
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content_tagsn = 118 — final analysed sample of Study 1, split 57 primed and 61 no-prime
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content_tags168 — sample size of Study 2, which the authors call slightly underpowered
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content_tagst(116) = −2.19, p = 0.03, d = 0.40 — Study 1 effect of the multiculturalism prime on social distancing
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content_tagsF(2,165) = 15.19, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.16 — overall Study 2 effect of priming condition on positive emotion
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content_tagsCohen’s d = 0.93 — size of the positive-emotion gap between the multiculturalism and assimilation prime groups
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content_tagsω = 0.90 and α = 0.90 — internal reliability of the Study 1 social distancing scale
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