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How positive and negative contact experiences relate to identification and acculturation of persons with a migration background: Differentiating between majority, minority, and religious group identity
Author(s) -
Sixtus Frederick,
Wesche Jenny S.,
Tsantila Katerina,
Kerschreiter Rudolf
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2572
Subject(s) - acculturation , psychology , turkish , social psychology , immigration , social identity theory , context (archaeology) , minority group , identification (biology) , identity (music) , contact theory , group identification , social group , ethnic group , sociology , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , botany , physics , archaeology , structural engineering , biology , anthropology , acoustics , history , engineering
Badea, Jetten, Iyer, and Er‐Rafiy proposed a model that specifies immigrants’ experienced rejection by majority and minority groups and social identification with these groups as predictors of their acculturation attitudes. The present research tested an extended version of this model by assessing (i) both positive and negative contact experiences with majority and minority groups, (ii) social identification with these groups and religious groups, and (iii) acculturation attitudes. We surveyed individuals with Greek ( N = 186) and Turkish ( N = 138) migration background living in Germany. The proposed model yielded a good fit with the empirical data and showed that positive and negative contact with majority and minority groups predicted minority members’ acculturation attitudes, mediated via identification with the majority, minority, and religious group. Our findings support the extended model and contribute to a broader understanding of contact–identification–acculturation links in the context of migration.