Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
33rd International Congress of Psychology, Praha, Çek Cumhuriyeti, 21 - 26 Temmuz 2024, cilt.59, ss.751-752
The contemporary theories of racism are claimed to be parochial explanations, and there is little to no research testing the aversive racism phenomenon outside of the WEIRD countries. Additionally, preferred and perceived acculturation strategies of aversive racists remain unknown. Exploring this research gap is critical because acculturation studies, which exclusively rely on self-report methods, might benefit from aversive racism literature exploiting implicit attitudes. The present study aims to test the applicability of aversive racism theory in Turkey and examine host societies’ attitudes and acculturation strategies toward Syrian refugees. The two-dimensional model of prejudice was used to categorise participants’ attitudes. It was hypothesised that education level would predict aversive racism and that aversive racists would prefer integration strategy more often while perceiving that immigrants choose separation and marginalisation strategies. Hypotheses were tested through a correlational study with a sample of 271 Turkish participants aged between 18–77 (M = 34, SD = 14.37). Political Orientation Scale, Host Community Acculturation Scale, Perceived Acculturation Strategies from Immigrant Society Scale, Attitudes Towards Syrians Scale, and Implicit Association Test were employed to collect data. Pearson correlation analysis, Chi-square test, Repeated measures ANOVA, and Logistic Regression analysis were used to examine data. The analysis revealed that 33% of the participants display attitudes compatible with the aversive racist profile, and education level positively predicts aversive racism. The strategy aversive racists perceived from the immigrant group the most was separation, and the difference between the perception of separation and other strategies was statistically significant. Even though aversive racists preferred integration most as a strategy, the difference between preference for integration and other strategies was not statistically significant. These findings offer insight into the possible indistinct obstacles aversive racists create for integrating immigrants and challenge the assumption that contemporary racism is a parochial concept by detecting the aversive racism in a non-WEIRD country.