Presentation_1_Terror Management in a Multicultural Society: Effects of Mortality Salience on Attitudes to Multiculturalism Are Moderated by National Identification and Self-Esteem Among Native Dutch People.PDF

Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg et al., 1997) proposes that mortality concerns may lead people to reject other cultures than their own. Although highly relevant to multiculturalism, TMT has been rarely tested in a European multicultural society. To fill this void, two studies examined the effects of mortality salience (MS) among native Dutch people with varying levels of national identification and self-esteem. Consistent with TMT, MS led to less favorable attitudes about Muslims and multiculturalism among participants with high (rather than low) national identification and low (rathe... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Mandy Tjew-A-Sin
Sander Leon Koole
Dokumenttyp: Text
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Schlagwörter: Applied Psychology / Clinical Psychology / Developmental and Educational Psychology / Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology / Organizational Behavioral Psychology / Personality / Social and Criminal Psychology / Gender Psychology / Health / Clinical and Counselling Psychology / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / Psychology not elsewhere classified / Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified / mortality salience / self-esteem / national identification / ethnocentrism / Multicultural society
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00721.s001

Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg et al., 1997) proposes that mortality concerns may lead people to reject other cultures than their own. Although highly relevant to multiculturalism, TMT has been rarely tested in a European multicultural society. To fill this void, two studies examined the effects of mortality salience (MS) among native Dutch people with varying levels of national identification and self-esteem. Consistent with TMT, MS led to less favorable attitudes about Muslims and multiculturalism among participants with high (rather than low) national identification and low (rather than high) self-esteem (Study 1). Likewise, MS led participants with high national identification and low self-esteem to increase their support of Sinterklaas, a traditional Dutch festivity with purported racist elements (Study 2). Together, these findings indicate that existential concerns may fuel resistance against multiculturalism, especially among people with low self-esteem who strongly identify with their nationality.