Call for papers to be included in a meta-analysis on attitudes about diversity
Currently, we ? Sebastian Stegmann and Rolf van Dick, Goethe
University, Frankfurt ? are conducting a meta-analysis on the effects of
Attitudes about Diversity
(aka Diversity Beliefs, Diversity Mindsets, etc.)
Through this meta-analysis we seek to put into focus another way of
disentangling the complex and sometimes inconsistent findings on the
effects of diversity. The simple assumption is that the effects of
diversity depend on what people think about diversity. In particular
we are looking at
a) the direct effects of these attitudes on all sorts of process and
outcome variables.
b) The moderating effects of these attitudes on the relationship
between diversity and all sorts of process and outcome variables.
Research on this topic comes under various names and is scattered
amongst a variety of different research areas. The constructs we are
looking for can be described as follows:
Attitudes about Diversity: The common feature of these attitudes is
that they ascribe a certain value
to diversity. These attitudes can resemble a personal opinion or a
climate variable.
Diversity: We define diversity as the fact that there are or the
amount of differences within a social unit. We look at all possible
kinds of diversity in all thinkable social units.
Outcome/ Process variables: Anything that could reasonably count as
resulting from holding a particular opinion on diversity or being in a
more or less diverse environment.
We have conducted an extensive search for published studies. However,
we conjecture that much more research of this kind has been done. If
you have conducted research with constructs close to the ones
described above, we would be very happy receiving either references to
published reports of this research and/or information about
unpublished findings via email to:
stegmann@psych.uni-frankfurt.de