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Ethnic outgroup aggression: A pilot study on the importance of emotion regulation, nationalism and susceptibility to persuasion. / Stupar-Rutenfrans, Snežana; Verdouw, Petrouschka C.D.; van Boven, Jedidja et al.
In: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Vol. 84, 09.2021, p. 79-85.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Ethnic outgroup aggression: A pilot study on the importance of emotion regulation, nationalism and susceptibility to persuasion
AU - Stupar-Rutenfrans, Snežana
AU - Verdouw, Petrouschka C.D.
AU - van Boven, Jedidja
AU - Ryzhkina, Olga Aleksandrovna
AU - Batkhina, Anastasia
AU - Aksoz-Efe, Idil
AU - Hamzallari, Oriola
AU - Papageorgopoulou, Penny
AU - Uka, Fitim
AU - Petrović, Nebojša
AU - Statovci, Arta
AU - Rutenfrans-Stupar, Miranda
AU - Praničević, Daniela Garbin
AU - Zahaj, Skerdi
AU - Mijts, Eric
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - The current pilot study investigated the psychological mechanisms behind ethnic outgroup aggression, a significant outcome of intergroup conflicts. While previous research suggested several impactful predictors of ethnic outgroup aggression, such as intergroup contact and nationalism, no attempt has been made to synthesize all these constructs into a single cross-cultural study. Building on existing research, this pilot study is the first to assess a refined framework where we tested a proposed mediation model according to nationalism and emotion regulation mediate the relationship between intergroup contact, susceptibility to persuasion, and intergroup anxiety on the one hand and ethnic outgroup aggression on the other hand within a cross-cultural sample. An online questionnaire was distributed using convenience sampling among 2482 students with an ethnic majority background living and studying in ten (European) countries. Multigroup path analysis supported the larger part of the hypothesized model where we found that emotion regulation partially mediated the relationship between susceptibility to persuasion as a predictor and aggression as an outcome. As expected, we found that the higher the susceptibility to persuasion, the higher the emotion regulation, and the higher the regulation, the lower the aggression in all countries. Our pilot study provided preliminary evidence that emotion regulation, nationalism and susceptibility to persuasion are critical for the understanding of ethnic outgroup aggression in ethnically diverse societies. Future research needs to be carried out focusing on the development of an intergroup anxiety assessment in which possible gender differences in assessed constructs are considered.
AB - The current pilot study investigated the psychological mechanisms behind ethnic outgroup aggression, a significant outcome of intergroup conflicts. While previous research suggested several impactful predictors of ethnic outgroup aggression, such as intergroup contact and nationalism, no attempt has been made to synthesize all these constructs into a single cross-cultural study. Building on existing research, this pilot study is the first to assess a refined framework where we tested a proposed mediation model according to nationalism and emotion regulation mediate the relationship between intergroup contact, susceptibility to persuasion, and intergroup anxiety on the one hand and ethnic outgroup aggression on the other hand within a cross-cultural sample. An online questionnaire was distributed using convenience sampling among 2482 students with an ethnic majority background living and studying in ten (European) countries. Multigroup path analysis supported the larger part of the hypothesized model where we found that emotion regulation partially mediated the relationship between susceptibility to persuasion as a predictor and aggression as an outcome. As expected, we found that the higher the susceptibility to persuasion, the higher the emotion regulation, and the higher the regulation, the lower the aggression in all countries. Our pilot study provided preliminary evidence that emotion regulation, nationalism and susceptibility to persuasion are critical for the understanding of ethnic outgroup aggression in ethnically diverse societies. Future research needs to be carried out focusing on the development of an intergroup anxiety assessment in which possible gender differences in assessed constructs are considered.
KW - Emotion regulation
KW - Intergroup anxiety
KW - Nationalism
KW - Outgroup aggression
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111818699&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.07.004
DO - 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.07.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111818699
VL - 84
SP - 79
EP - 85
JO - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
JF - International Journal of Intercultural Relations
SN - 0147-1767
ER -
ID: 29280035