Self-affirmation, political value congruence, and support for refugees

Title: Self-affirmation, political value congruence, and support for refugees
Creator: Badea, Constantina; Tavani, Jean-Louis; Rubin, Mark; Meyer, Thierry
Relation: Journal of Applied Social Psychology Vol. 47, Issue 7, p. 355-365
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12441
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: This research tested the potential for self-affirmation on left- and right-wing political values to increase behavioral intentions to provide help and assistance to refugees. We present a pilot study defining left- and right-wing values, and a main study in which participants completed either a self-affirmation task, a group-affirmation task, or participated in a control condition on values that were either congruent or incongruent with their own political views. Results show that left-wing oriented participants showed more supportive intentions in the self-affirmation condition compared to the group-affirmation and control conditions, independent of values congruency. In contrast, right-wing participants showed more supportive intentions in the self-affirmation condition, but only when they affirmed on values that were congruent with their own political views.
Subject: self-affirmation; left-wing politics; right-wing politics; refugees; pilot study
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1399253
Identifier: uon:34561
Identifier: ISSN:0021-9029
Language: eng
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