Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2021 Oct;27(4):569-578. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000448. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
The current study contributes to the field's limited knowledge about the sociopolitical consequences of internalized Model Minority Myth (MMM) among Asian Americans. In particular, we examine how the MMM serves as a legitimizing ideology, in which the perpetuation of beliefs about society as fair ultimately maintain racial inequality.
Using path analysis with 251 Asian American college students, we tested a model linking internalized MMM (i.e., attitudes towards Asian Americans as achievement oriented and as having unrestricted mobility, compared to other racial minorities) to anti-Black attitudes and opposition to affirmative action for Black Americans. We examined direct effects of internalized MMM on such outcomes, as well as indirect effects through other legitimizing ideologies, including just world beliefs and racial colorblindness.
Findings demonstrated that greater levels of internalized MMM among Asian American college students predicted greater anti-Black attitudes and opposition to affirmative action. Greater internalized MMM achievement orientation and unrestricted mobility also directly predicted greater just world beliefs and colorblindness. Results from our test of indirect effects showed that internalized MMM achievement orientation and unrestricted mobility both indirectly predicted opposition to affirmative action through colorblindness, and unrestricted mobility also indirectly predicted anti-Black attitudes through colorblindness. Also, achievement orientation and unrestricted mobility indirectly predicted anti-Black attitudes through just world beliefs.
Our findings have implications for research and practice that promotes awareness of and seeks to challenge the MMM, anti-Blackness, and beliefs about affirmative action among Asian Americans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究有助于了解美国亚裔内化模范少数族裔神话（MMM）的社会政治后果，而这一领域目前对此知之甚少。具体而言，我们探讨了 MMM 如何成为一种合法化意识形态，即对社会公平的信念得以延续，最终维持了种族不平等。
我们使用路径分析，对 251 名美国亚裔大学生进行了研究，检验了一个将内化的 MMM（即与其他少数族裔相比，对亚裔美国人的成就取向和不受限制的流动性的态度）与反黑态度和反对为非裔美国人提供平权行动联系起来的模型。我们考察了内化的 MMM 对这些结果的直接影响，以及通过其他合法化意识形态（包括公正世界信念和种族色盲）的间接影响。
研究结果表明，美国亚裔大学生内化 MMM 的程度越高，对非裔的态度越负面，对非裔美国人平权行动的反对也越强烈。内化 MMM 的成就取向和不受限制的流动性也直接预测了更大的公正世界信念和种族色盲。我们对间接效应的检验结果表明，内化的 MMM 成就取向和不受限制的流动性都通过种族色盲间接预测了对平权行动的反对，而不受限制的流动性也通过种族色盲间接预测了对非裔的负面态度。此外，成就取向和不受限制的流动性也通过公正世界信念间接预测了对非裔的负面态度。
我们的研究结果对研究和实践具有启示意义，它们有助于提高人们对 MMM、反黑人主义以及美国亚裔对平权行动的信念的认识，并寻求挑战这些观念。
