2013
DOI: 10.1037/a0033707
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Development and preliminary validation of the Negative Attitude Toward Immigrants Scale.

Abstract: Two studies describing the development of the Negative Attitude Toward Immigrants Scale (NATIS) are presented. In Study 1, undergraduates (N = 167) responded to a pool of 40 researcher-developed items measuring attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, as well as measures of legal authoritarianism, dogmatism, and Five-Factor Model personality traits. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a single 30-item factor, which was reduced to 12 items when all immigration-themed items were removed. The 12-item NATIS d… Show more

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“…Immigration-related beliefs were measured with the Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants Scale (NATIS; Varela et al, 2013), a 12-item measure yielding a single summed score (higher scores reflect more negative attitudes; response options: 1 = Completely disagree through 5 = Completely agree). The NATIS has very high internal consistency (α = .93).…”
Section: Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants Scalementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Immigration-related beliefs were measured with the Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants Scale (NATIS; Varela et al, 2013), a 12-item measure yielding a single summed score (higher scores reflect more negative attitudes; response options: 1 = Completely disagree through 5 = Completely agree). The NATIS has very high internal consistency (α = .93).…”
Section: Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants Scalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Construct validity is appropriate, as the scale correlates positively with measures of conservative political orientation and legal authoritarianism. Furthermore, predictive validity is demonstrated through prediction of mock juror decision-making in a case involving an immigrant offender (Varela et al, 2013).…”
Section: Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants Scalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Political conservatism is a well-established predictor of attitudes towards a number of outgroups. Those who identify as politically conservative (an ideology defined by 'resistance THE SURPRISING POLITICS OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT PREJUDICE 4 to change and [a] tendency to prefer safe, traditional and conventional forms of institution and behaviour'; Wilson, 1973c, p. 4) tend to harbour more negative attitudes towards immigrants (Varela, Gonzalez, Clark, Cramer, & Crosby, 2013), Black people (Lambert &Chasteen, 1997), andMuslims (De Zavala, Cisłak, &Wesołowska, 2010). Furthermore, highly conservative individuals are less likely to show reductions in prejudice when evaluating immigrants who share a social category with them (Prati, Moscatelli, Pratto, & Rubini, 2017).…”
Section: Political Conservatismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, we used a more representative sample of United States adults rather than undergraduate participants. Second, in order to extend our findings and assess the generalizability of our model, we operationalized prejudice as negative attitudes toward immigrants and measured this with the validated Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants Scale (Varela, Gonzalez Jr., Clark, Cramer, & Crosby, 2013). Finally, we used a more psychometrically valid measure of identification with humanity, the IWAH (McFarland et al, 2012), instead of only the single-item measure of self-other overlap from Study 1.…”
Section: Studymentioning
confidence: 99%