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Belonging and Group Status Threats as Possible Mediators of Demographic Change Salience on Political Ideology

Folmsbee, Jason R
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8557-940X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1698923910039543

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2023, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
Craig and Richeson (2014a) showed that salience of the impending majority-minority demographic shift in the United States produced an ideological shift toward political conservatism among white Americans. This effect was mediated by a perceived group status threat, such that knowledge of a shrinking white population elicited perceptions that white Americans would cede their status to current minority groups, which predicted greater endorsement of conservative attitudes. The current work hypothesized that knowledge of this population change might also produce a belonging-threat among white Americans. This threat was hypothesized to mediate the effect of demographic shift salience on conservatism, with greater belonging-threat eliciting greater conservatism. To test these hypotheses, white Americans read about the majority-minority shift or a control message and completed measures of perceived belonging-threat, perceived group status threat, and conservative ideology. Support for the hypotheses was mixed. Replicating Craig and Richeson (2014a), those in the majority-minority shift (versus the control) condition reported greater perceived group status threat. But, opposite to predictions, those in the majority-minority shift condition reported less belonging-threat. The impact of condition on conservatism was mediated (in parallel) by perceived belonging-threat in a direction opposite to predictions and by group status threat in a direction consistent with predictions.
Heather Claypool (Advisor)
Jeffrey Hunger (Committee Member)
Allison Farrell (Committee Member)
43 p.
Psychology; Social Psychology
Belonging-threat; group status threat; conservatism; majority-minority shift

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  • Folmsbee, J. R. (2023). Belonging and Group Status Threats as Possible Mediators of Demographic Change Salience on Political Ideology [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1698923910039543

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Folmsbee, Jason. Belonging and Group Status Threats as Possible Mediators of Demographic Change Salience on Political Ideology. 2023. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1698923910039543.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Folmsbee, Jason. "Belonging and Group Status Threats as Possible Mediators of Demographic Change Salience on Political Ideology." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1698923910039543

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