Personality and Individual Differences

, volume 54 , issue 6 , pages 779-784

The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice

Kristof Dhont ¹

Arne Roets ¹

Alain Van Hiel ¹

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Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology Ghent University, Belgium. |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2013-04-01

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Previous research has identified need for closure (NFC) as an important motivational-cognitive basis of authoritarianism and prejudice. However, to date, the role of NFC in the intergenerational similarity in authoritarianism and prejudice has remained unclear. In a sample of 169 parent–child dyads, we investigated the similarity between parents and children in NFC and tested whether this intergenerational similarity may account for the intergenerational similarity in authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice. Our results revealed that parental levels of NFC were indeed concordant with the levels of NFC in their children. Even more importantly, parental NFC was indirectly related to child authoritarianism and prejudice in two ways. The first pathway proceeded through the direct relationships between parental and children’s levels of authoritarianism and prejudice. The second pathway, however, bypassed parental levels of authoritarianism and prejudice and proceeded through the intergenerational similarity in NFC. Our findings thus indicate that a significant portion of children’s levels of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice can be explained by parent–child similarity in motivated cognition. Implications for developmental theories of prejudice acquisition are discussed.

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Dhont K., Roets A., Van Hiel A. The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice // Personality and Individual Differences. 2013. Vol. 54. No. 6. pp. 779-784.

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DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.016

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TI - The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice

T2 - Personality and Individual Differences

AU - Dhont, Kristof

AU - Roets, Arne

AU - Van Hiel, Alain

PY - 2013

DA - 2013/04/01

PB - Elsevier

SP - 779-784

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VL - 54

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@article{2013_Dhont,

author = {Kristof Dhont and Arne Roets and Alain Van Hiel},

title = {The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice},

journal = {Personality and Individual Differences},

year = {2013},

volume = {54},

publisher = {Elsevier},

month = {apr},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.016},

number = {6},

pages = {779--784},

doi = {10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.016}

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Dhont, Kristof, et al. “The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice.” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 54, no. 6, Apr. 2013, pp. 779-784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.016.

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Personality and Individual Differences

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1.419

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9.3

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2.6

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01918869 (Print)

18733549