Self-categorisation and emotional reactions to ethnic minorities

✍ Scribed by Maykel Verkuyten; Marco Drabbles; Koen Van Den Nieuwenhuijzen

• Book ID: 101276854
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-2772
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199908/09)29:5/6<605::aid-ejsp949>3.0.co;2-#

✦ Synopsis

The results of this study demonstrate that how people react emotionally to ethnic minority groups varies as a function of self-categorisation. Studying ethnic Dutch participants, it was found that participants with high social self-categorisation reported more negative emotions than participants with low social self-categorisation. Moreover, it was found that only among the former group of participants were ingroup stereotypes related to emotional reactions towards minority groups. The role of self-categorisation was found for both negative and positive emotions, and also for situations where the presence of ethnic minority groups had either negative or positive consequences for the ingroup. Additionally, only individual ingroup stereotypes and not cultural ingroup stereotypes were found to be related to emotions. These results support insights from self-categorisation theory and illustrate the generalizability of the self-categorisation process.