Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS
Volume 81, Issue -, Pages 236-251Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.02.002
Keywords
Polyculturalism; Multiculturalism; Colorblindness; Flourishing; Ethnocultural empathy; Intercultural contact; Cultural identity clarity
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Polyculturalism is associated with higher ethnocultural empathy and higher-quality intercultural contact, leading to higher flourishing, but also linked to lower cultural identity clarity and indirectly to lower well-being through this pathway.
In pluralistic societies such as Australia, an emerging diversity ideology of polyculturalism promotes sharing ideas and practices among people from diverse cultural traditions. What are the psychological associations of endorsing polyculturalism in contrast to multiculturalism and colorblindness, especially for an individual?s psychological well-being? We tested a path model to investigate if diversity ideologies are associated with flourishing through ethnocultural empathy, intercultural contact quality, and cultural identity clarity, using questionnaire responses of 255 Australians. The results supported our hypothesis that polyculturalism is associated with higher ethnocultural empathy and higher-quality intercultural contact and with higher flourishing through these pathways. Simultaneously, polyculturalism also associated with lower cultural identity clarity and indirectly with lower flourishing through this pathway. In contrast, the results did not support the link between these mediators and multiculturalism or colorblindness. Our findings indicate that polyculturalism has both positive and negative associations with eudaimonic well-being for those who endorse this ideology and suggest the increasing relevance of polyculturalism for Australians and the need for further research.
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