期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2010
卷号：19
期号：3 (107)
页码：421-440
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The aim of this study was to investigate sociodemographic characteristics and identity as determinants of general attitude towards immigrants, as well as perceived consequences of immigrations (threat perceptions). Also, the aim of the study was to investigate whether perceptions of threat related to immigrations are mediators of sociodemographic and identity effects on attitude towards immigration. Data were collected by face to face interviews with 866 adults. Analyzed individual characteristics encompass demographic (gender, age, level of education), socioeconomic (employment status, average income, subjective measure of relative socioeconomic status) and identity measures (objective and subjective measure of belonging to city/region). Perceived consequences of immigration encompass measures of economic, safety and cultural threat. A more positive attitude to immigration is more characteristic among younger people, those with higher subjective socioeconomic status, and those who do not consider themselves indigenous to the current place). Also, meditational analyses confirmed that these effects could be completely (or partially) explained by perceived threat. In short, the study confirmed perceived threat as proximal determinants of attitudes towards immigrations, as well as mediators of effects of more distal determinants such as demographic, socioeconomic or identity variables.
关键词：intergroup attitudes; sociodemographic characteristics; real interests; identity; type of threats; mediational analyses
