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Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action as a Function of the Strength of Ethnic Identity Among Latino College Students 1
Author(s) -
Elizondo Evellyn,
Crosby Faye
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02585.x
Subject(s) - affirmative action , ethnic group , psychology , identity (music) , social psychology , action (physics) , function (biology) , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , acoustics , biology
The present study examined support for affirmative action among Latino college students as a function of ethnic identity. We found that, overall, Latino students generally endorsed affirmative action and did not feel undermined by it. Of primary interest to us was variation in support for affirmative action as a function of ethnic identity. The more the Latino students identified with their ethnic group, the more they endorsed affirmative action.