Conference Proceedings

2008 Annual Conference

Conference Venue: Dublin
British Psychological Society

From: 04 Feb 2008
To: 04 Apr 2008

 
Peer-Reviewed

Perceived threats to National Identity Motivations in the Context of Intergroup attitudes

T. Chrysanthaki
Queen's University Belfast

E. Lyons
Queen's University Belfast


Increasingly, identity theorists note the conceptual and empirical value of establishing models that account for the contribution, dominance and interplay of other motives in explaining social identification and intergroup attitudes across different socio-political contexts. This study aims to identify the relative salience of national identity principles in a sample of 316 Greek nationals and show whether in migration context, perceived threats to those principles explain prejudice and acculturation attitudes. Results support the cultural specificity of identity processes showing that perceived threat to national continuity-the guiding national identity principle-was relatively the strongest and in some instances unique predictor of intergroup attitudes.