DDRIG in DRMS: The Effects of Internalized Cultural Inferiority on Political Attitudes and Behavior

DRMS 中的 DDRIG：内化文化自卑对政治态度和行为的影响

• 批准号: 2242597
• 负责人: Daniel Posner
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242597&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; DRMS; Effects; Internalized; Cultural

Non-White individuals face social pressure to accept or embrace racial stereotypes and ideologies that characterize their own racial groups as inferior, a phenomenon of internalized cultural inferiority. Existing research demonstrates that internalized cultural inferiority can generate poor mental and physical health among non-White individuals. This project examines how this mentality affects Black individuals’ interactions with government, specifically in settings where most citizens are Black. Historical racial stereotypes and ideologies suggest that Black individuals are not capable citizens or political leaders. As a result, Black individuals who accept these ideas may participate in politics less and/or judge Black-led governments more harshly than they otherwise would. Understanding these effects is important because negative stereotypes can be powerful enough to create self-fulfilling prophecies; in other words, stereotypes can actually degrade the objective quality of government services over time. This research highlights how racial inequality may reproduce and sustain itself, even in cases with minimal contemporary legal barriers to political equality. Scholars and activists in certain contexts have identified this mentality as a ubiquitous, persistent, and damaging legacy of colonialism and imperialism. Nonetheless, social scientists have largely ignored this social ill in these contexts, limiting knowledge about its prevalence, its consequences, and means of mitigating it. This research better equips policymakers and practitioners by providing measurement tools and by identifying potential social harms arising from an internalized cultural inferiority.This research project surveys six hundred Black respondents to accomplish two goals. First, the researchers develop a new scale to measure this mentality. This scale is substantially shorter than existing scales – only four to six items – making it easier for social scientists to conduct policy-relevant research. Second, this survey generates evidence to examine how this mentality affects Black individuals’ political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. In particular, it tests hypotheses that this mentality (1) reduces self-assessed political competency, as well as propensity to vote and take other political action, and (2) generates more unfavorable evaluations of government performance under Black leadership. The same survey collects data for both scale development and hypothesis testing simultaneously as a cost saving measure; however, the researchers finalize the scale before examining political data to prevent generating bias toward their own hypotheses. By increasing understanding of the causes and consequences of a this mentality, the research provides useful information for policy makers in their efforts to reduce internalized cultural inferiority.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

非白人个人面临社会压力，不得不接受或接受将自己的种族群体视为劣等群体的种族陈规定型观念和意识形态，这是一种内化的文化劣等现象。现有的研究表明，内化的文化自卑感会导致非白人个体的身心健康状况不佳。这个项目探讨了这种心态如何影响黑人个人与政府的互动，特别是在大多数公民是黑人的环境中。历史上的种族刻板印象和意识形态表明，黑人不是有能力的公民或政治领导人。因此，接受这些想法的黑人个人可能会比其他人更少地参与政治和/或更严厉地评判黑人领导的政府。了解这些影响很重要，因为消极的陈规定型观念可能强大到足以创造自我实现的预言;换句话说，随着时间的推移，陈规定型观念实际上会降低政府服务的客观质量。这项研究突出了种族不平等如何可能复制和维持自己，即使在最小的当代法律的障碍，政治平等的情况下。在某些情况下，学者和活动家认为这种心态是殖民主义和帝国主义的一种普遍存在的、持久的和破坏性的遗产。尽管如此，社会科学家在很大程度上忽略了这种社会弊病，在这些context. This研究提供测量工具，并通过识别潜在的社会危害所产生的内在文化inferior. This研究项目调查600黑人受访者完成两个目标，更好地装备决策者和从业人员的普遍性，其后果和减轻的手段。首先，研究人员开发了一个新的量表来衡量这种心态。该量表比现有的量表（只有4至6个项目）短得多，使社会科学家更容易进行与政策相关的研究。其次，这项调查产生的证据，以研究这种心态如何影响黑人个人的政治态度，信仰和行为。特别是，它测试的假设，这种心态（1）降低自我评估的政治能力，以及倾向于投票和采取其他政治行动，（2）产生更不利的评价政府的表现在黑人的领导。同一项调查同时收集了量表开发和假设检验的数据，作为节省成本的措施;然而，研究人员在检查政治数据之前确定了量表，以防止对他们自己的假设产生偏见。通过加深对这种心态的原因和后果的理解，该研究为政策制定者提供了有用的信息，以努力减少内化的文化自卑感。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。