The moderating role of socially desirable responding in implicit-explicit attitudes toward asylum seekers

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Explicit Attitudes ◽  
Moderating Role

Challenging the Frame in the News

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baldwin Van Gorp ◽  
Paul Hendriks Vettehen ◽  
Johannes W.J. Beentjes
Keyword(s):  
External Validity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Mixed Condition ◽  
The Third ◽  
Issue Involvement ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Newspaper Articles

The present study contributes to the external validity of the framing concept by studying the effects of frames actually utilized in newspaper articles. The study assesses the persuasive influence of such frames on the interpretation of news, and how issue involvement and attitude interfere in this process. A total of 282 participants were presented with one of three experimental versions of a newspaper article about asylum. In the first condition the asylum seekers were implicitly labeled as innocent victims, in the second as intruders. The third version is a mixed condition in which both competing frames were applied. In all three conditions an identical photograph was inserted. The findings indicate that the frame suggests how the photograph can be interpreted. However, no indications were found for a moderating role of the news readers’ issue involvement or attitude.

Changing Connotations and the Evolution of the Effect of Wording: Labeling Asylum Seekers in a Political Campaign

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 714-737
Author(s):  
Béla Janky
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Asylum Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Moderating Role

Abstract This paper investigates the moderating role of public discourse in the effects of labeling asylum seekers (as “immigrants” vs. “refugees”) on attitudes toward asylum policy. The study relies on a series of survey experiments conducted in Hungary, in a period when asylum policy suddenly became a highly salient issue there. Originally, respondents were much more solidaristic toward “refugees” than “immigrants,” but the public discussion on asylum policy suppressed this wording effect—mainly by contaminating the concept of “refugee.” By using data on news reports and respondents’ media use, the analysis also looks at the roots of these changes. In particular, it presents evidence on the moderating role of converging connotations of different labels on the effect of wording.

scholarly journals A video intervention for every straight man: The role of preattitudes and emotions in vicarious-contact effects

2020 ◽  
pp. 136843022091046
Author(s):  
Sabine Preuß ◽  
Melanie C. Steffens
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Intergroup Emotions ◽  
Explicit Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Implicit And Explicit Attitudes ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Effect Experiment ◽  
Contact Effects

Research has shown that vicarious contact can help to reduce prejudice. We tested the effect of a controlled, video-based vicarious-contact intervention on straight men’s (implicit and explicit) attitudes toward gay men. Findings of Experiment 1 ( n = 99 German participants) failed to show direct effects but were in line with the idea that negative (situation-specific) emotions mediate the intervention effect. Experiment 2 ( n = 108 U.S. participants) expanded findings: straight men with antigay preattitudes reported less negative intergroup emotions toward gay men after watching the vicarious-contact video (compared to the control condition); and less negative intergroup emotions were related to more positive attitudes toward gay men. For straight men with positive preattitudes, findings were in line with the hypothesis that positive intergroup emotions toward gay men were the relevant mediator. We discuss the moderating role of preattitudes to explain processes underlying vicarious-contact effects.

Testing the Strain Theory of Suicide – The Moderating Role of Social Support

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Lew ◽  
Ksenia Chistopolskaya ◽  
Yanzheng Liu ◽  
Mansor Abu Talib ◽  
Olga Mitina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Strain Theory ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychological Strains ◽  
Moderating Role

Abstract. Background: According to the strain theory of suicide, strains, resulting from conflicting and competing pressures in an individual's life, are hypothesized to precede suicide. But social support is an important factor that can mitigate strains and lessen their input in suicidal behavior. Aims: This study was designed to assess the moderating role of social support in the relation between strain and suicidality. Methods: A sample of 1,051 employees were recruited in Beijing, the capital of China, through an online survey. Moderation analysis was performed using SPSS PROCESS Macro. Social support was measured with the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and strains were assessed with the Psychological Strains Scale. Results: Psychological strains are a good predictor of suicidality, and social support, a basic need for each human being, moderates and decreases the effects of psychological strains on suicidality. Limitations: The cross-sectional survey limited the extent to which conclusions about causal relationships can be drawn. Furthermore, the results may not be generalized to the whole of China because of its diversity. Conclusion: Social support has a tendency to mitigate the effects of psychological strains on suicidality.

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