Social dominance orientation: revisiting the structure and function of a variable predicting social and political attitudes.

نویسندگان

  • Arnold K Ho
  • Jim Sidanius
  • Felicia Pratto
  • Shana Levin
  • Lotte Thomsen
  • Nour Kteily
  • Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
چکیده

Social dominance orientation (SDO) is one of the most powerful predictors of intergroup attitudes and behavior. Although SDO works well as a unitary construct, some analyses suggest it might consist of two complementary dimensions--SDO-Dominance (SDO-D), or the preference for some groups to dominate others, and SDO-Egalitarianism (SDO-E), a preference for nonegalitarian intergroup relations. Using seven samples from the United States and Israel, the authors confirm factor-analytic evidence and show predictive validity for both dimensions. In the United States, SDO-D was theorized and found to be more related to old-fashioned racism, zero-sum competition, and aggressive intergroup phenomena than SDO-E; SDO-E better predicted more subtle legitimizing ideologies, conservatism, and opposition to redistributive social policies. In a contentious hierarchical intergroup context (the Israeli-Palestinian context), SDO-D better predicted both conservatism and aggressive intergroup attitudes. Fundamentally, these analyses begin to establish the existence of complementary psychological orientations underlying the preference for group-based dominance and inequality.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Personality & social psychology bulletin

دوره 38 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012