Prati Francesca, Kana Kenfack Corine Stella, Hewstone Miles, Rubini Monica
Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna.
Department of Psychology, La Sapienza University of Rome.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Sep 30. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000707.
The present research investigated the role of a pervasive and often negative form of indirect contact, exposure to mass media news on interethnic contact. Specifically, we examined the associations between mass media exposure and both African immigrants' attitudes toward native Italians and their collective action intentions to achieve higher intergroup equality in the host country.
We conducted two survey studies, one cross-sectional (Study 1, = 285) and the second longitudinal (Study 2, = 423) with African immigrants living in Italy.
Exposure to negative mass media news was linked to less positive attitudes toward native Italians and more collective action of African immigrants. The negative link between negative mass media news exposure and intergroup attitudes was stronger for those African migrants who reported relatively low positive and negative direct intergroup contact. These findings were consistent across both studies. The positive link between negative mass media news exposure and collective action was stronger among African immigrants with relatively low negative direct intergroup contact.
The evidence illustrates the independent and combined ways in which the valence of direct and indirect contact can affect immigrants' attitudes toward natives, and their motivation to build a more inclusive and equal society. Overall, results highlighted the greater strength of negative rather than positive indirect contact of immigrants, especially when they reported less positive direct contact experience with native Italians. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究调查了一种普遍且往往具有负面性的间接接触形式，即接触大众媒体新闻对族际接触的作用。具体而言，我们考察了大众媒体接触与非洲移民对意大利本土人的态度以及他们在东道国实现更高群体间平等的集体行动意图之间的关联。
我们对居住在意大利的非洲移民进行了两项调查研究，一项是横断面研究（研究1，n = 285），另一项是纵向研究（研究2，n = 423）。
接触负面大众媒体新闻与对意大利本土人较不积极的态度以及非洲移民更多的集体行动相关联。对于那些报告相对较少积极和消极直接群体间接触的非洲移民来说，负面大众媒体新闻接触与群体间态度之间的负面关联更强。这两项研究的结果一致。在直接群体间接触负面程度相对较低的非洲移民中，负面大众媒体新闻接触与集体行动之间的正向关联更强。
证据表明了直接接触和间接接触的效价影响移民对本土人态度及其建设更具包容性和平等社会的动机的独立方式和综合方式。总体而言，结果突出了移民负面间接接触而非正面间接接触的更大影响力，尤其是当他们报告与意大利本土人有较少积极直接接触经历时。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2024美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
