The University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom; Aarhus University, Nordre Ringgade 1, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Soc Sci Res. 2023 Mar;111:102852. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102852. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
Research has shown that differences in personality can help explain attitudes towards immigration. Personality may also moderate the impact of local immigrant levels. Using attitudinal measures from the British Election Study, this research confirms the importance of all Big Five personality traits in predicting immigration attitudes in the UK and finds consistent evidence of an interaction between extraversion and local immigrant concentrations. In areas with high levels of immigrants, extraverted individuals are associated with more supportive immigration attitudes. Moreover, this study shows that the response to local immigrant levels varies by immigrant group. Levels of nonwhite immigrants and immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries are associated with greater levels of immigration hostility, whereas this is not the case for white immigrants or immigrants from Western and Eastern Europe. These findings demonstrate that an individual's response to local immigration levels depends on both their personality and the immigrant group in question.
研究表明，个性差异可以帮助解释对移民的态度。个性也可能缓和当地移民水平的影响。本研究使用英国选举研究中的态度衡量标准，证实了五大性格特质在预测英国移民态度方面的重要性，并发现外向性与当地移民密度之间存在一致的相互作用。在移民水平较高的地区，外向型个体与更支持移民的态度有关。此外，本研究表明，对当地移民水平的反应因移民群体而异。非白人移民和来自主要穆斯林国家的移民与更高水平的移民敌意有关，而来自白人移民或来自西欧和东欧的移民则不然。这些发现表明，个体对当地移民水平的反应取决于他们的个性和所涉及的移民群体。
