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A Dual Process Model of Attitudes towards Immigration: Person × Residential Area Effects in a National Sample

  1. Chris G. Sibley1,
  2. John Duckitt1,
  3. Robin Bergh2,
  4. Danny Osborne1,
  5. Ryan Perry1,
  6. Frank Asbrock3,
  7. Andrew Robertson4,
  8. Gavin Armstrong5,
  9. Marc Stewart Wilson6,
  10. Fiona Kate Barlow7

Article first published online: 24 JAN 2013

DOI: 10.1111/pops.12009

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How to Cite

Sibley, C. G., Duckitt, J., Bergh, R., Osborne, D., Perry, R., Asbrock, F., Robertson, A., Armstrong, G., Wilson, M. S. and Barlow, F. K. (2013), A Dual Process Model of Attitudes towards Immigration: Person × Residential Area Effects in a National Sample. Political Psychology. doi: 10.1111/pops.12009

Author Information

  1. 1

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

  2. 2

    Uppsala University, Sweden

  3. 3

    Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

  4. 4

    Colmar Brunton, New Zealand

  5. 5

    Wellington City Council, New Zealand

  6. 6

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  7. 7

    The University of Queensland, Australia

Publication History

  1. Article first published online: 24 JAN 2013

Funded by

  • University of Auckland FRDF. Grant Number: 3624435/9853
  • ECREA. Grant Number: 3626075

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Keywords:

  • social worldviews;
  • person × situation;
  • immigrant density;
  • regional deprivation;
  • immigration

This research took a person × situation approach to predicting prejudice by looking at how social worldviews interact with real-world environmental factors to predict how people respond to immigrants within their local area. Taking a Dual Process Motivational approach, we hypothesized that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local community would be associated with negative attitudes toward immigration for respondents high in dangerous world beliefs. Conversely, we hypothesized that living in a highly affluent (as opposed to socioeconomically deprived) community would be associated with negative attitudes toward immigration for respondents high in competitive world beliefs. Both hypotheses were supported using regional information derived from national census data combined with representative survey data from a large telephone sample conducted in New Zealand (N = 6,489). These findings support the proposition that individual differences interact with specific features of the environment to predict people's levels of prejudice in distinct ways.

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