Pompeu Fabra University, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.
Utrecht University, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Int J Psychol. 2022 Aug;57(4):491-500. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12814. Epub 2021 Oct 24.
There is some evidence that ethnocultural diversity encourages superordinate levels of categorisation, such as feeling identified with people globally. A remaining question is what type of engagement with diversity facilitates this link and why. We use immigrants' personal social network data and examine the link between global identification and ethnocultural diversity among closer relationships (i.e. strong network contacts, such as friendships) and more distant ones (i.e. weak contacts, including neighbours and acquaintances). Furthermore, following exposure to diversity, individuals may internalise more than one culture and differ how they integrate their multiple cultural socialisation into the self (i.e. vary in their degree of bicultural identity integration). We thus test whether relational ethnocultural diversity is linked to a stronger global identification through either cultural blendedness (i.e. combining two cultures) or harmony (i.e. perceiving two cultures as compatible). Relying on a culturally diverse community sample of 216 immigrants residing in Barcelona (53% female, M = 31 years, SD = 10.4), we found that ethnocultural diversity among strong (but not weak) contacts was associated with stronger global identification and that this association is mediated by cultural harmony (but not blendedness). These results attest to the link between having ethnoculturally diverse close social relationships and superordinate identification.
有一些证据表明，民族文化多样性促进了更高层次的分类，例如感觉与全球人民有认同感。一个悬而未决的问题是，什么样的多样性参与促进了这种联系，以及为什么会这样。我们利用移民的个人社会网络数据，考察了更亲密关系（如友谊等强网络联系）和更疏远关系（如邻居和熟人等弱联系）中全球认同与民族文化多样性之间的联系。此外，在接触多样性之后，个人可能会内化多种文化，并在将其多元文化社会化融入自我的方式上存在差异（即双文化身份认同整合程度不同）。因此，我们通过文化融合（即融合两种文化）或和谐（即认为两种文化兼容）来检验强关系中的民族文化多样性是否与更强的全球认同感有关。我们依靠居住在巴塞罗那的 216 名移民的多元化社区样本（53%为女性，M=31 岁，SD=10.4）进行研究，发现强联系（而非弱联系）中的民族文化多样性与更强的全球认同感有关，这种关联是通过文化和谐（而非融合）来介导的。这些结果证明了拥有民族文化多样化的亲密社会关系与上级认同之间的联系。
