{"title":"Discrimination experiences and support for policies helping marginalized groups: Mediation by ethnocultural empathy and moderation by race/ethnicity","authors":"Jaden G. Brown, Crystal D. Oberle","doi":"10.1111/asap.70050","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current study explores whether personal experiences with discrimination are associated with greater ethnocultural empathy, whether greater ethnocultural empathy is then associated with greater support for policies helping marginalized groups, and whether these relationships are moderated by racial or ethnic identity or by resilience. Participants, 384 adult students recruited from introductory psychology courses at a large university in the southern region of the United States, completed an online Qualtrics survey that included measures assessing the variables of interest. Moderated mediation analyses revealed that for racial or ethnic minorities, discrimination experiences were positively related to ethnocultural empathy, which was positively related to support for Black-targeted affirmative action policies and for policies helping stigmatized groups (e.g., sexual or gender minorities, homeless individuals). Resilience did not moderate any of the relationships. This study's findings suggest that by fostering ethnocultural empathy, we have the potential to build a more harmonious and socially engaged society of people wanting to help others who are most in need.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thomas Höge, Christine Unterrainer, Severin Hornung
{"title":"Measuring neoliberal individualism, instrumentality, and competition: Development and validation of the Neoliberal Ideological Beliefs Questionnaire (NLBQ)","authors":"Thomas Höge, Christine Unterrainer, Severin Hornung","doi":"10.1111/asap.70049","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents the development and validation of the Neoliberal Ideological Beliefs Questionnaire (NLBQ), a novel measure designed to analyze neoliberal ideological beliefs specifically within the context of work and employment. The NLBQ is theoretically grounded in the distinction of three fundamental political neoliberal logics: individualism, instrumentality, and competition. To evaluate its psychometric properties, factorial, and construct validity, the NLBQ was administered to four convenience samples of altogether <i>N</i> = 4075 participants from Austria and Germany (Study 1: <i>n</i> = 664; Study 2: <i>n</i> = 458; Study 3: <i>n</i> = 559; Study 4: <i>n</i> = 2394). The initial 90-item pool, developed through extensive group discussions and iterative testing, was reduced to a final 18-item version through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA). The four studies confirmed the three-dimensional structure of the NLBQ and demonstrated its convergent and incremental validity by computing bivariate and partial correlations with established scales measuring related constructs, such as neoliberal beliefs analyzed with an alternative measure (Neoliberal Beliefs Inventory), ideologies of market competition and shareholder interest, economic system justification, political left–right self-placement, social dominance orientation, dark triad personality, and group-focused enmity. The final 18-item version demonstrated satisfactory fit indices across all four samples. Finally, we derived a 9-item short version, which also showed strong psychometric properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Lise-Lore Steeman, David De Coninck, Leen d'Haenens
{"title":"Shades of acceptance: Mapping public tolerance of discriminatory practices and its links with authoritarianism","authors":"Lise-Lore Steeman, David De Coninck, Leen d'Haenens","doi":"10.1111/asap.70047","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While much is known about discriminatory behaviors in fields like the labor and housing markets, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on perceived acceptability of discrimination among the public. This study investigates this complex landscape by examining views on discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, and disability in Belgium through a web survey (<i>N</i> = 3000). Through four distinct vignettes based on housing and labor scenarios, we offer a deeper understanding of society's tolerance toward discriminatory practices. Age surfaces as the most tolerated form of discrimination, highlighting deeply ingrained ageist ideologies that overshadow the value of experience and wisdom in older individuals. Conversely, gender discrimination is met with the least acceptance, reflecting ongoing struggles for gender equality. Our findings shed light on the influence of authoritarian sentiments, particularly through the lens of social dominance orientation (SDO), on the acceptance of discrimination across all vignettes. We found a significant interaction between SDO and ethnicity, with the effect of SDO on the acceptability of discrimination being more pronounced in vignettes involving ethnicity as discrimination ground. While acknowledging limitations, our research sets the stage for future exploration of the multifaceted nature of discriminatory views and the intersectional identities that shape them.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mercedes A. Muñoz, Sophia H. Jenkins, Ivan Carbajal, Sarah E. Gaither
{"title":"Intersecting Identities and Ideologies: Sociodemographic Predictors of 2024 Voting Among Mexican and Cuban Americans","authors":"Mercedes A. Muñoz, Sophia H. Jenkins, Ivan Carbajal, Sarah E. Gaither","doi":"10.1111/asap.70046","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite Latino Americans’ consistent support for the Democratic Party over the last five decades, the number of Latino Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election grew by 10% compared to the 2020 election. What ideological and sociodemographic factors apart from ethnic identity may have influenced their voting behavior in the 2024 Presidential Election? Although previous work has demonstrated a person's Latino identity strength can influence their political behavior, Latino Americans hold other ideologies and sociodemographic factors that may influence their voting. Here, 186 Mexican Americans (the Latino group that voted the most for Harris) and 176 Cuban Americans (the Latino group that voted the most for Trump) participants completed measures of ethnic identity, acculturation, Latino-specific gender norms, conservatism, traditionalism, income, and religiosity among others. Across all participants, having higher levels of traditionalism was the most consistent predictor of voting for Trump over Harris. Voting for Trump over Harris was associated with higher levels of machismo (i.e., gender norms about men common in Latin American societies) only in Mexican Americans, whereas voting for Trump over Harris was associated with having a higher income only in Cuban Americans. These results suggest there are multiple, distinct ideologies and sociodemographic factors in Latino voters that influence their political preferences, rationales, and voting behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Worker-organization goal misalignment and support for collective action","authors":"Megan E. Burns, Michael W. Kraus","doi":"10.1111/asap.70044","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As workplace inequality persists, understanding the psychological processes motivating collective action engagement becomes imperative. In one domain of collective action, labor unionization, membership in the United States has continuously declined since the 1980s. Despite this decline, recent surveys suggest that pro-union sentiment is rising. Amid workplace inequity and rising public interest in unionization, we draw from research on collective action and organizational identification to examine whether exposure to worker-organization conflict and information about unions changes how workers evaluate existing and novel organizational grievance procedures, and consequently, increases pro-union sentiment. Across four studies (<i>N</i> = 3,143), we find that exposure to workplace conflicts and information about unions reduces workers’ perceived alignment with organizational grievance procedures and increases pro-union attitudes, relative to control conditions where participants are not exposed to information about unions. These findings have implications for employee wellbeing and for the psychological processes implicated in collective action organizing.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145824754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}