- 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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