An article in Social Science Research

New article titled “Coalitional affiliation as a missing link between ethnic polarization and well-being: An empirical test from the European Social Survey” written by Rengin B. Firat (associate researcher, LCSR) and Pascal Boyer was published in Social Science Research journal.

New article titled “Coalitional affiliation as a missing link between ethnic polarization and well-being: An empirical test from the European Social Survey” written by Rengin B. Firat (associate researcher, LCSR) and Pascal Boyer was published in Social Science Research journal (Volume 53, September 2015).

In the article professor Pascal Boyer and Rengit Firat examined how coalitional psychology moderates the effects of diversity on well-being and health. Using multi-level models and data from the European Social Survey (Round 1, 2002–2003) for 19 countries, the authors demonstrated that coalitional affiliation provides an empirically reliable, as well as theoretically coherent, explanation for various effects of ethnic and racial diversity. In the paper the authors discussed different levels of coalitional affiliation, which refers to people`s social allegiances that guide their expectations of social support, in-group strength and cohesion. Despite the fact that there is much uncertainty about the processes that connect diversity variables with personal outcomes, the authors managed to operationalize coalitional affiliation as the extent to which people rely on a homogeneous social network, and measure it with indicators of friendships across ethnic boundaries and frequency of contact with friends.  The main result of the study was that perceived neighbourhood ethnic diversity reduces well-being and health as well as homogenous coalitional affiliations deteriorate well-being in diverse neighbourhoods.

An article can be found via the link below:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article