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Prejudice and Inclusiveness in Adolescence: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation and Multiple Categorization
Author(s) -
Albarello Flavia,
Crocetti Elisabetta,
Rubini Monica
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.13295
Subject(s) - categorization , prejudice (legal term) , social dominance orientation , psychology , dominance (genetics) , social psychology , developmental psychology , social category , longitudinal study , social perception , identification (biology) , perception , political science , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , statistics , mathematics , authoritarianism , epistemology , politics , law , democracy , gene , botany , neuroscience , biology
This study examined the relations of multiple categorization and social dominance orientation with adolescents’ prejudice against migrants and identification with the human group over time. Participants were 304 Northern‐Italian late adolescents (61.84% female, M age = 17.49) involved in a three‐wave longitudinal study (with 3 months interval between waves). Results showed that multiple categorization was negatively linked to prejudice at a later time, whereas social dominance orientation was positively associated with it; prejudice also negatively affected multiple categorization and positively affected social dominance orientation at a later time. Moreover, prejudice mediated the effects of multiple categorization and social dominance orientation on human identification. These findings have important implications suggesting the construens effect of multiple categorization for enhancing social inclusiveness.