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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
psychology
Predicting support for racial transformation policies: Intergroup threat, racial prejudice, sense of group entitlement and strength of identification
European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 41, No. 1, Year 2011
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Description
Policies and programs designed to challenge the effects of racial discrimination (such as affirmative action) are hotly contested. Factors which have been proposed to explain opposition to these policies include racial prejudice, group threat and self-interest, and perceptions of intergroup justice. We report the results of two random national telephone surveys which tested a theoretically based model of the predictors of policy support in post-apartheid South Africa. The results provided limited support for Blumer's group position model. Compensatory and preferential treatment policies had different underlying predictors: Violated entitlement featured in the models of compensatory policy attitudes, but not preferential treatment policy attitudes, where threat was the strongest predictor. In addition to threat and violated entitlement, policy attitudes among the black sample were related to ingroup identification but those of the white sample were related to prejudice. The effects of these variables were in the opposite directions for the two samples: Policy support was associated with strong ingroup identification and high levels of threat among the black sample (i.e. prospective beneficiaries of the transformation policies), but with low levels of prejudice and threat among the white sample. We conclude by considering the implications that these findings have for social change programs. © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Durrheim, Kevin L.
South Africa, Durban
University of Kwazulu-natal
Dixon, John A.
United Kingdom, Lancaster
Department of Psychology, Lancaster University
Tredoux, Colin Getty
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Eaton, Liberty
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Quayle, Michael
South Africa, Durban
University of Kwazulu-natal
Clack, Beverley
United Kingdom, Lancaster
Department of Psychology, Lancaster University
Statistics
Citations: 88
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/ejsp.723
ISSN:
00462772
e-ISSN:
10990992
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Cohort Study
Study Locations
South Africa