Sam Nariman Hadi, Hadarics Márton, Kende Anna, Lášticová Barbara, Poslon Xenia Daniela, Popper Miroslav, Boza Mihaela, Ernst-Vintila Andreea, Badea Constantina, Mahfud Yara, O'Connor Ashley, Minescu Anca
Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 30;11:2071. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02071. eCollection 2020.
The Roma have been and still are a target of prejudice, marginalization, and social exclusion across Europe, especially in East-Central European countries. This paper focuses on a set of stereotypical, emotional, and behavioral evaluative responses toward Roma people selected as representing the underlying components of anti-Roma bias. Employing network analysis, we investigated if attitude strength is associated with stronger connectivity in the networks of its constituent elements. The findings from representative surveys carried out in Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, France, and Ireland supported our assumption, as high attitude strength toward the Roma resulted in stronger connectivity in all pairs of high- versus low-attitude-strength networks. Our finding yields a solid theoretical framework for targeting the central variables-those with the strongest associations with other variables-as a potentially effective attitude change intervention strategy. Moreover, perceived threat to national identity, sympathy, and empathy were found to be the most central variables in the networks.
罗姆人过去是、现在仍然是整个欧洲，尤其是中东欧国家偏见、边缘化和社会排斥的对象。本文聚焦于一组针对罗姆人的刻板、情绪化和行为性评价反应，这些反应被视为构成反罗姆偏见的潜在要素。通过网络分析，我们研究了态度强度是否与其构成要素网络中更强的连通性相关。在匈牙利、罗马尼亚、斯洛伐克、法国和爱尔兰进行的代表性调查结果支持了我们的假设，因为对罗姆人态度强度高会导致在所有高态度强度与低态度强度网络对中连通性更强。我们的研究结果为将核心变量——那些与其他变量关联最强的变量——作为一种潜在有效的态度改变干预策略提供了坚实的理论框架。此外，发现对国家身份的感知威胁、同情和同理心是网络中最核心的变量。
