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Security and attitudes toward globalization: A multilevel analysis

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Cameron, James E.
Kocum, Lucie
Berry, John W.

Abstract / Description

Globalization implicates a number of social psychological processes and outcomes, including openness to ideas, products, and people from outside one’s national boundaries. Drawing from theory and research on intergroup threat, the researchers posited that people will be more open to connections between their nation and others if they feel their economic situation and culture are relatively secure. They found some support for these hypotheses in 2 sets of archival survey responses collected by the Pew Global Attitudes Project in 2002 (40 countries; N = 34,073) and 2009 (25 countries; N = 22,500). Personal economic security and perceived national economic security were associated with more positive attitudes toward globalization in both survey years. However, country-level variables—development status (as indexed by the United Nations’ Human Development Index) and aggregated economic and cultural security—moderated the individual-level effects in several ways. Individual perceptions of national economic security more strongly predicted attitudes toward globalization in more favourable climates (e.g., in more developed countries, and at higher levels of country-level national economic security). Individual-level cultural security was positively associated with attitudes toward globalization in countries with higher levels of socioeconomic development, but negatively related to those attitudes in less developed nations. The results provide some new perspectives on individual and collective factors that inform the perceived benefits of globalization.

Keyword(s)

globalization attitudes economic security cultural security Human Development Index

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Date of first publication

2020-12-09

Journal title

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Volume

8

Issue

2

Page numbers

805–822

Publisher

PsychOpen GOLD

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publishedVersion

Review status

peerReviewed

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Cameron, J. E., Kocum, L., & Berry, J. W. (2020). Security and attitudes toward globalization: A multilevel analysis. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(2), 805-822. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i2.418
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Cameron, James E.
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Kocum, Lucie
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Berry, John W.
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-04-14T11:23:56Z
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    2022-04-14T11:23:56Z
  • Date of first publication
    2020-12-09
  • Abstract / Description
    Globalization implicates a number of social psychological processes and outcomes, including openness to ideas, products, and people from outside one’s national boundaries. Drawing from theory and research on intergroup threat, the researchers posited that people will be more open to connections between their nation and others if they feel their economic situation and culture are relatively secure. They found some support for these hypotheses in 2 sets of archival survey responses collected by the Pew Global Attitudes Project in 2002 (40 countries; N = 34,073) and 2009 (25 countries; N = 22,500). Personal economic security and perceived national economic security were associated with more positive attitudes toward globalization in both survey years. However, country-level variables—development status (as indexed by the United Nations’ Human Development Index) and aggregated economic and cultural security—moderated the individual-level effects in several ways. Individual perceptions of national economic security more strongly predicted attitudes toward globalization in more favourable climates (e.g., in more developed countries, and at higher levels of country-level national economic security). Individual-level cultural security was positively associated with attitudes toward globalization in countries with higher levels of socioeconomic development, but negatively related to those attitudes in less developed nations. The results provide some new perspectives on individual and collective factors that inform the perceived benefits of globalization.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • Citation
    Cameron, J. E., Kocum, L., & Berry, J. W. (2020). Security and attitudes toward globalization: A multilevel analysis. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(2), 805-822. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i2.418
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  • ISSN
    2195-3325
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/5645
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6249
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychOpen GOLD
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i2.418
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4315
  • Keyword(s)
    globalization
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  • Keyword(s)
    attitudes
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  • Keyword(s)
    economic security
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  • Keyword(s)
    cultural security
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  • Keyword(s)
    Human Development Index
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Security and attitudes toward globalization: A multilevel analysis
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    2
  • Journal title
    Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • Page numbers
    805–822
  • Volume
    8
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