Title: The Role of Religious Identity and Islamophobia for Majority Members’ Acculturation Expectations toward Muslim Minorities in Norway
Abstract: Abstract
Recently, acculturation research have started to focus on attitudes and expectations of majority members toward various immigrant groups. However, the factors influencing these expectations have, thus far not been adequately and exhaustively investigated. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to test the relationship between religious identity, Islamophobia and acculturation expectations of societal majority members in Norway toward Muslim minorities. By using structural equation modeling, the current study examined direct, indirect and total effects of religious identity on majority member’s acculturation expectations through the pathway of Islamophobia. Results obtained with Norwegian undergraduates showed that, among both religious and atheists, integrationism was the most frequently preferred acculturation expectation, whereas segregationism was least endorsed. However, religious identity did effect the acculturation expectations both directly and indirectly. Participants with religious identity endorsed segregationism more strongly than atheists. Moreover, as hypothesized, religious identity was positively related to Islamophobia and the results also suggest that Islamophobia mediated the relationship between religious identity and acculturation expectations. Those with a religious identity were more Islamophobic, which in turn led to greater endorsement of assimilation expectations and lower endorsement of integration expectations. However, Islamophobia did not mediate the relationship between religious identity and the expectation of segregation.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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