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Perceptions of immigrant threats
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Perceptions of immigrant threats
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the role of social Darwinism
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Saud
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Lina
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Lina Saud
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Jussim
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Lee
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Lee Jussim
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Rutgers University
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Despite being a nation of immigrants, the United States has seen spikes in anti-immigrant sentiment throughout its history (Higham, 2002), including today. Two perceived threats are implicated with driving these negative sentiments: (1) resource threats, reflecting economic competition with immigrants, and (2) symbolic threats, reflecting a cultural mismatch with immigrants, whose values undermine the host culture. Do resource threat and symbolic threat share a common ideology, or are they distinct? The current research aimed to answer this question. This study examined the predictive utility of two previously theorized ideological motivations, social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), as well as a prevalent yet overlooked ideology, social Darwinism (i.e. “survival of the fittest”), as the underlying motivations for both resource and symbolic threat concerns pertaining to immigration. Findings from this study reveal that these three ideologies perform similarly well in predicting both resource and symbolic threat perceptions, challenging the idea that SDO solely drives resource threat perceptions and RWA solely drives symbolic threat perceptions. Moreover, these findings reveal the need to include social Darwinism among the arsenal of belief systems driving anti-immigrant attitudes.
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Psychology
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Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects
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M.S.
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by Lina H. Saud
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ETD graduate
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Lina
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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