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Abstract
A survey of 326 White and African American college respondents examined the relationship among perceptions of news coverage of Latino immigrants, perceived threats, and attitudes toward Latino immigrants. Perceived negative news images of Latino immigrants were associated with greater perceived threats, which were related to White and African American respondents' negative immigrant attitudes. Negative news perception also predicted unfavorable Latino immigrant attitudes. The study also suggested that perceived accuracy of negative immigrant news affected perceived threats. There was no racial difference in these response patterns. Findings are discussed in light of intergroup threat and social identity theory.
Notes
Note. Gender was coded 1, male, 2, female; Race was coded 0, not white, 1, white. For political ideology, higher scores indicate more conservative views. Higher scores indicate more positive racial attitudes and more positive personal contact with Latinos. Betas in the table are betas at entry.
*p ≤ .05. **p ≤ .01. ***p ≤ .001.
Note. Gender was coded 1 = male, 2 = female; Race was coded 0 = not White, 1 = White. For political ideology, higher scores indicate more conservative views. Higher scores indicate more positive racial attitudes and more positive personal contact with Latinos. Betas in the table are betas at entry.
# p ≤ .10. *p ≤ .05. **p ≤ .01. ***p ≤ .001.
The study assessed whether a problem of multicollinearity existed by examining both zero-order correlations among predictor variables and variance inflation factors (Stevens, 1996). Neither the results from simple correlations nor the results from the variance inflation factor methods indicated that this study suffered from the problem of multicollinearity.
