Refugees in the media: Exploring a vicious cycle of frustrated psychological needs, selective exposure, and hostile intergroup attitudes

Lueders, Adrian; Prentice, Mike; Jonas, Eva

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2580

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“…Motivational factors concern residents' propensity to regard immigrants as needy victims or as sources of threat, and their need to justify their attitudes and affective responses to immigration. For instance, evidence suggests that residents selectively process information PSYCHOLOGY OF REFUGEE INTEGRATION 40 on refugees provided by the media to justify their preexisting negative responses to refugees, especially when they experience frustration of basic needs by the arrival of refugees (Lüders, Prentice, & Jonas, 2019). In this case, motivated information processing would induce residents to perceive refugees' migration as driven by their own self-interests rather than external forces.…”

Section: Psychology Of Refugee Integration 39mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Echterhoff¹,

Hellmann²,

Back³

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The successful management of refugee immigration, including refugee integration in host societies, requires a sound understanding of underlying psychological processes. We propose a model of the Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI), highlighting perceived forcedness (i.e., coercion and loss of control from “push” factors) and ensuing perils (risks and potential suffering during migration) as distinctive factors of refugee (vs. voluntary) migration. According to our model, perceptions and subjective representations of forcedness and associated perils activate specific psychological processes relevant to refugee integration and thus moderate responses to the demands and stressor of the immigration situation. We conceptualize these distinctive influences for integration-relevant processes in both refugees and in residents. By pinpointing the unique features of refugee migration, PARI generates novel and specific hypotheses about psychological processes predicting refugee integration. For instance, refugees’ memories of forcedness and associated perils should lead to high preoccupation with the restoration of basic needs after arrival in a receiving country, which interferes with integration-related activities. Conversely, residents’ perceptions of forcedness and related perils may enhance empathy with refugees, but may also magnify feelings of anxiety and threat. Implications for refugee integration are discussed for the domains of occupational work, education, and mental health.

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Section: Psychology Of Refugee Integration 39mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Echterhoff¹,

Hellmann²,

Back³

et al. 2019

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“…Stereotypes about refugee groups are compared to stereotypes about other target groups of prejudice (Kotzur, Friehs, Asbrock, & van Zalk, ). Furthermore, effects of media portrayals of refugees on residents’ rejection or acceptance of refugees are reported (Lüders, Prentice, & Jonas, ).…”

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Special Issue on “The Social Psychology of Forced Migration and Refugee Integration” in the European Journal of Social Psychology

Echterhoff

Hellmann

Back

et al. 2019

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Such danger cues may be searched outside of oneself, for example, in other people who could threaten one's safe and good life. Accordingly, researchers found that both thwarted needs and anxiety increase selective processing of information, which reinforces threatening perceptions of cultural others (Gadarian & Albertson, 2014;Lueders, Prentice, & Jonas, 2019). Additionally, researchers related anxiety-associated avoidance tendencies with a heightened appeal of policies that promise individual security, socio-political stability, and ingroup homogeneity (Janoff-Bulman, 2009;Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003).…”

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Motivational and affective drivers of right-wing populism support: Insights from an Austrian presidential election

Lueders

Mühlberger

Jonas

2020

Soc. Psychol. Bull.

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Research has identified political disenchantment as an important driver for the recent spread of right-wing populism. The cultural backlash approach explains this relationship as a counter response to progressive socio-political developments in Western societies. Drawing on previous work, the present research examines motivational and affective factors underlying the support of right-wing populist parties. We hypothesize that a perceived alienation from the symbolic architecture of a society may decrease levels of psychological need satisfaction, which may catalyze into anxiety and anger. As the “political system” represents an important reflective surface for the socio-political status quo, we expected lower levels of need satisfaction and its resulting affective consequences to help explain the relationship between political disenchantment and right-wing populist support. We tested these tenets based on data from the 2016 Austrian presidential election (n = 626). The results of a structural equation model corroborated our predictions with some exceptions. Data indicated a negative relationship between political disenchantment and need satisfaction. Moreover, decreased need satisfaction was associated with increased self-reported anxiety and anger. Political disenchantment indirectly predicted support for a right-wing populist presidential candidate through decreased need satisfaction and anger, thus corroborating the role of anger as an important driver underlying right-wing populism support. Counterintuitively, the data indicated a negative relationship between anxiety and right-wing support. We discuss theoretical and practical implications, as well as limitations stemming from sample characteristics and the employed cross-sectional design.

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Refugees in the media: Exploring a vicious cycle of frustrated psychological needs, selective exposure, and hostile intergroup attitudes

Cited by 14 publications

References 59 publications

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)

Special Issue on “The Social Psychology of Forced Migration and Refugee Integration” in the European Journal of Social Psychology

Motivational and affective drivers of right-wing populism support: Insights from an Austrian presidential election

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