Research On City Residents' Stereotypes Of Migrant Workers

Objective:To understand the city residents' explicit and implicit attitudes of migrant workers, to analyze whether there exist stereotypes of migrant workers, thus to explore the interaction between these two groups, which could promote further exploration to the solution on the issues of migrant workers, especially on spiritual, cultural and psychological aspects, as well as providing a theoretical basis for the research on stereotypes of migrant workers.Methods:By using a combination of survey on explicit attitudes and experimental implicit attitudes test, city residents of Changsha were randomly investigated. Data were obtained and recoded before being statistical analyzed through SPSS15.0 software.Results:There existed explicit and implicit stereotypes of migrant workers in city residents. In the explicit aspect, the results of survey showed that city residents had stereotypes of migrant workers in the image, occupation, education, social status and so on. Both the level of general knowledge and contact of migrant workers in city residents were not high. The channel of their knowledge was also narrow, but the basic attitude of migrant workers was positive. City residents believed that the impact of migrant workers to the city had double sides, positive and negative at the same time. This dual positive and negative tendency was also reflected in the basic evaluation of stereotypes of migrant workers in city residents. In the implicit aspect, city residents showed faster information processing speed when migrant workers were associated with negative contents, implying negative stereotypes. The correlation analysis found that explicit positive stereotypes were related with sex, life satisfaction, and the place of growing-up, but implicit positive stereotypes were not affected by these factors; explicit negative stereotypes were related with age and sex, but implicit negative stereotypes were related with life satisfaction and the place of growing-up.Conclusion:City residents showed differences in explicit and implicit stereotypes of migrant workers. Although they implied the contents of stereotypes in two different sides, a common negative stereotype of migrant workers in city residents were confirmed. Factors which were related to the stereotypes including gender, age, life satisfaction, place of growing-up and so on.