The Relation Research On Social Dominance Orientation And Domains Of Group Attitudes

Psychologists advance social dominance orientation (SDO) developed to examine the underlying dynamic of many social、political attitudes. It assesses belief in group inequality and support for a hierarchically oriented social system. People higher on SDO tend to favour hierarchy-enhancing ideologies and policies. Many finings demonstrate that differences in social dominance orientation can help explain individual differences in groups attitudes.The research sampled college student.This study consists of one preparatory study and two series of studies. The preparatory study mainly collect targeted social groups and tests reliability of core scale used in the following formal studies. Study 1 was to assess whether attitudes to a variety of social groups or categories would comprise a single domain of generalized prejudice or whether several distinct generalized group domains would emerge. Study 2 was to test the hypotheses that SDO and SDO’ factors would relate to attitudes toward groups comprising different social domains. Study 3 was to examine "gender" and "background" how to relate to domains of group attitudes.The results showed:(1)Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used found that the affective ratings to a variety of social groups emerge three factors: dangerous groups, derogated groups, dissident groups. Attitude ratings across a variety of different are systematic and consistent within the same domain. This finding partly support social dominance theory that suppoese a individual level factors affect attudes for a set of groups.(2)We then used Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM) to examine the degree to which the between-participant component of variation in attitudes toward groups classified as derogated, dangerous, or dissident, was explained by individual differences in SDO. SDO was not significantly related to attitudes toward groups in three domains. It havn’t found similar results as others cuntries in our courtry.(3)OEQ negatively relates to derogated groups , but positively relates to dangerous groups. Individuals more generally oppose to equality,would more negative to derogated groups,but positive to dangerous groups.(4)For derogated groups, participants of urban sample are siginifcantly negative than participants of rural sample. For dangerous groups, male participants are siginifcantly posotive than female participants. In male participants of sample and female participants of rural sample OEQ can inhance the negative affective ratings to the derogated groups than male participants of rural sample.