Values and Attitudes Toward Immigrants Among School Children in Switzerland and Poland

Research on key determinants of negative attitudes toward immigration has often suggested that values held by individuals systematically explain such sentiments. Universalists appear to have more positive and conservatives more negative attitudes. So far, however, these insights are based on studies...

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Authors: Becker, Charlotte Clara (Author) ; Davidov, Eldad 1971- (Author) ; Cieciuch, Jan 1974- (Author) ; Algesheimer, René 1973- (Author) ; Kindschi, Martin 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Race and social problems
Year: 2022, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 308-325
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Keywords:
Autoregressive cross-lagged models
School children
panel data
Attitudes toward immigration
Values
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Summary:Research on key determinants of negative attitudes toward immigration has often suggested that values held by individuals systematically explain such sentiments. Universalists appear to have more positive and conservatives more negative attitudes. So far, however, these insights are based on studies using adult samples. In our study, we analyze these relations among children and adolescents. For the analysis, we utilized a Swiss-Polish panel dataset (2015–2017, N = 5,332) with three time points collected among school children aged 8–19 years. We employed autoregressive cross-lagged models. The results indicated that while universalism decreased negative attitudes toward immigrants, the expected effect for conformity-tradition was not found.
ISSN:1867-1756
DOI:10.1007/s12552-022-09357-4