The Relationship Between Intergroup Threat And Implicit Stereotypes Of Urban And Rural: The Moderation Of Group Identity

Intergroup threat refers to the threat of social groups in the context of the various features of resources, beliefs and values, such as a group has the presence of another group, development and Goals.When individuals perceive a threat from outside groups, often lead to negative attitudes towards the outside groups, such as stereotypes, prejudices and negative attitudes such as the enhancement of inter-group level of threat is enhanced, and even lead to intergroup conflict.Refers to the individual and group identity based on group membership group psychological sense contact, that is, the identity of the individual members of the group will be integrated into the extent of their self-concept.Based on previous studies, referring to previous research paradigm, urban college students to rural students implicit stereotype as the main body, to explore the impact of such intergroup threat implicit stereotypes, and group identity in which the regulation effect.This study selected a city college students from a university in a city as subjects, a total of three studies. A randomized study of 62 subjects, by the Implicit Association Test, urban college students to explore rural students implicit stereotype existence and directionality. The results show that the presence of the city college students implicit negative stereotypes of rural students. Second, on the basis of a research study on inter-group to explore the impact of this threat implicit negative stereotypes. Referring to domestic and foreign research paradigm, through self intergroup threat of material being tested different levels of intergroup threat of manipulation.61 subjects were randomly divided into high and low groups intergroup threat intergroup threat group, reading materials and the corresponding threat after completed the questionnaire, conducted IAT test. The results show that relative to low intergroup threat group, intergroup high threat urban group Students for rural students show stronger negative stereotype. Three basic research on the previous two studies, to further explore the inter-group identity in the group and the implicit threat of urban and rural stereotypes relations regulation.122 randomly selected subjects, the use of two(intergroup threat: high, low) × 2(group identity highlighting: highlighting specific group identity, highlighting the general group identity) between subjects design.The results showed that the main effect of intergroup threat of significant main effect of group identity highlights the remarkable, and the interaction between the two is also significant.Show group identity in intergroup threat implicit stereotypes affect urban and rural areas play a regulatory role, Compared to highlight a particular group identity, while the general population agree that highlights positive intergroup relations and the implicit threat of urban and rural stereotypes closer.