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Pereira A, Green EGT, Visintin EP. National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism. Front Psychol. 2017;8:477doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00477.
Pereira, A., Green, E. G. T., & Visintin, E. P. (2017). National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism. Frontiers in psychology, 8477. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00477
Pereira, Adrienne, et al. "National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism." Frontiers in psychology vol. 8 (2017): 477. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00477
Pereira A, Green EGT, Visintin EP. National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism. Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 10;8:477. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00477. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28443041; PMCID: PMC5385359.
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Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 10;8:477. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00477. eCollection 2017.

National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism.

Frontiers in psychology

Adrienne Pereira, Eva G T Green, Emilio Paolo Visintin

Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne,Lausanne, Switzerland.

PMID: 28443041 PMCID: PMC5385359 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00477

Abstract

Positive intergroup contact with socially and economically advantaged national majorities has been shown to reduce ethnic identification among minorities, thereby undermining ethnic minority activism. This finding implies that ethnic identity is the relevant social identity driving ethnic minorities' struggle for equality. We argue that the study of the "sedating" effect of positive intergroup contact for minorities should be more nuanced. The existence of multiple and sometimes interplaying social identities can foster a reinterpretation of the meaning of "ethnic" activism. This study therefore examines how the interplay of ethnic and national identities shapes the sedating effect of contact on minority activism. We expect national identification to buffer the sedated activism resulting from reduced ethnic identification. That is, the mediation from intergroup contact to reduced ethnic activism through weakened ethnic identification is expected to be moderated by national identification. With survey data from Bulgaria, we investigated support for ethnic activism among Bulgarian Roma (

Keywords: Roma; ethnic identification; intergroup contact; minority activism; national identification

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