Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain.
Int J Psychol. 2022 Aug;57(4):483-490. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12756. Epub 2021 Mar 15.
There remains an obvious gap in the acculturation literature, which relates to cultural change associated with the majority/dominant group. This paper explores how majority members react to a perceived expectation from minority members that majority members should undergo cultural change. A study was conducted exploring how majority members' perceptions of a demand by minority members that the majority should adopt the minority culture affects the majority members' preferences for minority acculturation, and whether effects are mediated by perceptions of symbolic threat. Two hundred sixty-six participants who self-reported being white British completed an online survey. A model was hypothesized whereby a perception that minority members demand that the majority takes on the minority culture predicted perceived symbolic threat, which was in turn negatively associated with a desire that minority members should maintain the minority culture, and positively with a desire that minority members should adopt the majority culture. Results supported the hypothesized model, with all individual paths and indirect effects significant in the hypothesized directions. Symbolic threat mediated the effect of perceived demand for minority culture adoption on majority preferences for minority acculturation. Findings are discussed in relation to implications for intergroup relations in culturally plural societies.
在文化适应文献中，仍然存在一个明显的空白，即与多数/主导群体相关的文化变化。本文探讨了多数群体如何应对少数群体成员认为多数群体应该进行文化变革的期望。进行了一项研究，探讨了多数群体成员对少数群体成员要求多数群体采用少数群体文化的看法如何影响多数群体成员对少数群体文化适应的偏好，以及这种影响是否受到象征性威胁的感知的中介作用。266 名自称为白种英国人的参与者完成了一项在线调查。假设了一个模型，即认为少数群体成员要求多数群体接受少数群体文化的看法预测了感知到的象征性威胁，而这种威胁反过来又与希望少数群体成员保持少数群体文化的愿望呈负相关，与希望少数群体成员采用多数群体文化的愿望呈正相关。结果支持了假设模型，所有个体路径和间接效应在假设方向上均具有统计学意义。象征性威胁中介了对少数群体文化采用的感知需求对多数群体对少数群体文化适应偏好的影响。研究结果与多元文化社会中群体间关系的意义有关。
