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Exploring the Mediating Role of Belongingness: Racism, Mental Health, and Migrant Identity
Nwabugwu, T.I. (2024) Exploring the Mediating Role of Belongingness: Racism, Mental Health, and Migrant Identity.
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| Abstract: | This study investigated the role of a sense of belongingness in the relationship between perceived racism and mental health in individuals with migration backgrounds (IMB) in Western Europe. Due to racialization by Western ideology, IMB face high rates of racism in Western Europe. This exposure to racism might lead to negative mental health, which can be mediated by a lack of belongingness. However, in order to feel a sense of belongingness, IMB use various identities such as ethnic and national identity. A questionnaire with pre-existing scales and an additional open question regarding the identity was created to examine the hypotheses. Namely, perceived racism, mental health, sense of belongingness and identity were measured within a sample of 58 participants. The findings indicated no direct relationship between racism and mental health. But sense of belonging and mental health are positively correlated, while sense of belonging and perceived racism are negatively correlated. Furthermore, the mean of sense of belongingness for the national identity group was significantly different to the mean of the neither identity group. Thus, the results highlight the importance of the inclusion of IMB within Western European society by increasing a sense of belongingness. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/100132 |
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