The Antecedents and Implications of Intergroup Anxiety

群体间焦虑的前因和影响

• 批准号: 6530512
• 负责人: E A PLANT
• 金额: $ 7.3万
• 依托单位: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6530512
• 关键词: African American; angers; anxiety; avoidance behavior; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; bias; caucasian American; clinical research; conflict; ethnic group; expectancy; experience; human subject; interpersonal relations; isolation /deprivation; longitudinal human study; motivation; prejudice; questionnaires; social group process; social model; social psychology; university student

The proposed work examines the factors that influence the course of interracial interactions. Research on intergroup relations has highlighted the importance of intergroup anxiety in determining people's responses toward outgroup members. Drawing upon previous theorizing from both the prejudice and social anxiety literatures, the proposed work offers a model of the antecedents and implications of anxiety in interracial interactions. Specifically, it is argued that intergroup anxiety results from a lack of positive previous experiences with outgroup members, negative expectation about the corse of interracial interactions, and a lack of personal motivation to respond without bias toward outgroup members. Further, this anxiety is posited to result in heightened hostility toward outgroup members and a desire to avoid interacting with outgroup members, particularly among people who are not personally motivated to respond without prejudice. Intergroup anxiety creates stress in people live's and can result in avoidant coping styles both of which have negative implications of people's psychological well-being. Avoidance of outgroup members can lead to feelings of social isolations among those people who are avoided, which has negative psychological and health-related implications. In addition, if anxiety results in hostility toward outgroup members, this hostility could be stressful for outgroup members and threaten their self-esteem. The proposed work tests the casual relationships in the model using a longitudinal survey approach and a laboratory experiment to examine by developing strategies and interventions to reduce anxiety and the concomitant avoidance, and hostility in interracial interactions.

拟议的工作审查的因素，影响种族间的互动过程。对群际关系的研究强调了群际焦虑在决定人们对外群成员的反应方面的重要性。借鉴以前的理论从偏见和社会焦虑的文献，拟议的工作提供了一个模型的前因和跨种族互动的焦虑的影响。具体而言，它认为，群际焦虑的结果是缺乏积极的先前的经验与外群成员，负预期的科塞的跨种族的互动，以及缺乏个人的动机，以回应没有偏见的外群成员。此外，这种焦虑被认为会导致对外群成员的敌意加剧，并希望避免与外群成员互动，特别是在那些没有个人动机的人中。群际焦虑会给人们的生活带来压力，并导致回避型应对方式，这两种应对方式都会对人们的心理健康产生负面影响。回避外群体成员会导致被回避的人产生社会孤立感，这对心理和健康有负面影响。此外，如果焦虑导致对外群成员的敌意，这种敌意可能会给外群成员带来压力，并威胁到他们的自尊。拟议的工作测试的因果关系的模型，使用纵向调查的方法和实验室实验，以检查通过制定策略和干预措施，以减少焦虑和随之而来的回避，和敌意的种族间的互动。