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Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation: Relationships With Various Forms of Racism
Author(s) -
Hiel Alain Van,
Mervielde Ivan
Publication year - 2005
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.1559-1816.2005.tb02105.x
Subject(s) - social dominance orientation , prejudice (legal term) , racism , flemish , psychology , social psychology , authoritarianism , ethnocentrism , dominance (genetics) , sociology , gender studies , politics , democracy , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , law , archaeology , history
Previous research revealed that right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) are strongly related to racism. However, this line of inquiry neglected to study these relationships for various forms of racism. In Study 1, it was found in a Flemish heterogeneous adult sample ( N = 146) that RWA and SDO bore about equally strong relationships with biological racism, symbolic racism, ethnocentrism, and aversive racism. Study 2 revealed in a heterogeneous adult sample ( N = 176), also administered in Flanders (Belgium), that RWA was positively related to both subtle and blatant prejudice, whereas SDO was positively related only to blatant prejudice. Moreover, RWA differentiates better between different types of racists composed on the basis of scores on the racism dimensions. The implications of these results for RWA‐ and SDO‐based prejudice are discussed.