Department of Psychology, University of California,Northridge, CA 91330-8255, USA.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2010 Oct;16(4):468-75. doi: 10.1037/a0020237.
This study examines the relationship between college students' perceptions of their campus' multicultural climate and their acceptance of racial/ethnic diversity. A two-mediator model, based on acculturation principles, was successfully fit to survey data from 434 college students of diverse racial/ethnic heritage. Results showed that valuing positive interactions with members of ethnocultural groups other than one's own is a positive mediator and strength of ethnocultural identity is a (much less important) negative mediator of the relationship between student perceptions of multicultural campus programming and personal acceptance of diverse racial/ethnic groups. Furthermore, each mediator independently contributed to the prediction of such acceptance. Overall, the model accounts for about 25% of the variance in acceptance of diversity and was a better fit to the data than a reverse path model. Follow-up analyses, separately by ethnic group, showed that perceptions of campus programming predicted acceptance of diversity for the White subsample, but not for the Latino subsample. Nevertheless, the two acculturation-related constructs were important for both groups, with the model accounting for 28% and 24% of their respective variances in acceptance of diversity. Practical implications are drawn.
本研究考察了大学生对校园多元文化氛围的看法与他们对种族/族裔多样性的接受程度之间的关系。基于文化适应原则的双中介模型成功拟合了来自 434 名具有不同种族/族裔背景的大学生的调查数据。结果表明，重视与自己所属族群以外的族群成员进行积极互动是一个积极的中介，而族群认同的强度则是（重要性低得多）学生对多元文化校园规划的看法与个人对不同种族/族裔群体的接受程度之间关系的消极中介。此外，每个中介都独立地对这种接受程度的预测做出了贡献。总体而言，该模型解释了多样性接受程度差异的约 25%，并且比反向路径模型更符合数据。按族裔群体进行的后续分析表明，对校园规划的看法预测了白人样本对多样性的接受程度，但对拉丁裔样本则没有。然而，这两个与文化适应相关的构念对两个群体都很重要，该模型分别解释了他们对多样性接受程度差异的 28%和 24%。并得出了实际意义。
