National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross-country generalizability |
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Authors: | Mengyao Li Hanne M. Watkins Gilad Hirschberger Mabelle Kretchner Bernhard Leidner Anna Baumert |
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Affiliation: | 1. Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany;2. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA;3. Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel;4. Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany |
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Abstract: | Research on national identity distinguishes between national glorification and attachment. We tested whether glorification and attachment differentially predicted support for military and diplomatic conflict resolution strategies (CRS) in response to international conflicts. Using data collected in seven countries (Australia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Israel, China; total N = 1784), we investigated whether glorification and attachment can be equivalently measured (using tests of measurement invariance) and whether their relationships with CRS were generalizable across countries. The results revealed metric, but not scalar, measurement invariance of the two-factor structure of national identification across six countries, excluding China. Among these six countries, glorification predicted more support for military CRS, whereas attachment predicted more support for diplomatic CRS. Our study is novel in scrutinizing the cross-cultural generalizability of the bi-dimensional model of national identification. Implications for studying national identification and intergroup conflict cross-culturally are discussed. |
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Keywords: | conflict resolution culture intergroup conflict measurement invariance national identification |
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