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Pbkp_redictive factor of immigration attitudes

Abstract:

A survey (N=810) on students, student’s relatives and general population, studies attitudes beliefs towards immigration in Spain (Basque Country, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Salamanca. The negative attitude towards immigration was in multivariate analysis related to perceived social and cultural threat, high emotional worry and low approach emotional action tendencies. Disconfirming “poor racism” first and second generation internal immigrants (extremeños, andalusians, castillians and galicians living in the Basque Country) show a more positive attitude towards the new immigration than natives Basques. At collective level, prejudice towards inmigrants was related to social threat, low level of inmigrants in the national population, collectivistic and high power distance cultures. Social threat or low socio-economic development was the specific factor pbkp_redicting a negative attitude towards migrants. © 2005 by Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje.