Social attitudes of socio-attitudinal dimensions of personality in immigrants and autochthonous groups.
Author: Baguena, M. J, Villarroya, E.
Source:
Analisis y Modificacion de Conducta. Vol 17(53-54) 1991, 581-590.
Analyzed the attitudes of immigrants (IMI) and autochthonous persons, examining attitudinal characteristics of the Ss from a traditional point of view noting authoritarian and dogmatic behavior patterns. Ss were 20 people from Valencia, 20 Arab IMIs, 20 German IMIs, 20 Italian IMIs, and 20 Romans (all aged 18-60 yrs). Ss completed the Spanish version of Osgood's Semantic Differential, which isolates the evaluative dimension, the firmness-stability dimension, and the activity dimension; concepts the Ss had to rate were "My Race," "My Nationalism," and "My Country." For German IMIs, there was a greater distance between race and the other 2 concepts. For Arab IMIs, the 3 concepts made a cohesive whole. For Italians, Romans, and Valencians, race and nationalism were close together, with a greater distance in the semantic space for the concept of country.