Magdalena Bobowik
Biographic Data
| ID | 202088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magdalena Bobowik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magdalena |
| FAMILY NAME | Bobowik |
| SIGNATURE | BOBOWIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Basque Country |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2341-0665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Link Between Subaltern and Global Identities and Expectations of Immigrants’ Linguistic Acculturation
Intercultural exchange in diglossic societies, where languages coexist in an asymmetrical position, poses challenges for linguistic acculturation, determined by identity and power dynamics. This research examines how subaltern and global identification influences host culture members’ expectations of immigrants’ linguistic acculturation, specifically the adoption of the local minoritized language in diglossic contexts and the maintenance of the o…
Social identity, collective self-esteem, and musical preferences in electronic dance music culture
Research on the relationship between identification factors and musical preference show contradictory results. Some studies do not find relationship between these, while others show that social identification predicts stronger music preference. The present study further delves into that controversy in the understudied context of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Furthermore, we examine the role of two categories of emotions, namely, vitality (represe…
The Stigma of Schizophrenia
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is one of the most stigmatized mental disorder; yet, research on how it is perceived within the field of general nursing is limited. Since nurses play a crucial role in the care of individuals with schizophrenia, their attitudes toward this disorder can significantly impact treatment and well-being of those affected. AIM: = 314), across the three key elements of stigma: stereotypes, emotional responses, and the behaviora…
The link between anger and admiration toward governmental actions and self‐reported preventive behaviour in the context of the Covid ‐19 pandemic
In the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic, across six correlational studies in four different countries (total N = 4937), we examined the link between citizens' anger with and admiration for the government's actions and decisions (i.e., system‐based anger and admiration) and engagement in preventive behaviour. The internal meta‐analyses showed that individuals who admired the government's actions were more likely to adopt personal hygiene and socia…
The effects of refugees’ emotional tears on felt emotions and helping behaviors
Tearful faces are frequent in mass media portraits of refugees, but the consequences of such depictions for different kinds of intergroup helping remain poorly understood. While existing research suggests that individuals tend to be more willing to support those who display tears, the impact of emotional tears on tangible helping behavior, such as monetary donations, has not been examined. Understanding these dynamics could have significant impli…
News media consumption and support for counter-terrorism measures
Media are a key social agent shaping society's responses to measures implemented in the fight against terrorism. We argue that emotions elicited by media narratives on terrorist attacks are decisive to understand the link between the news media consumption and citizens' support for military intervention in the Middle East, as well as for security measures in the home country. In two studies conducted after the Brussels attacks (N = 250) and the B…
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain
Unconditional basic income (UBI) is a redistributive policy proposal that is receiving increasing attention in the Spanish political sphere. Welfare attitudes literature has shown that support for UBI is higher among left‐wing citizens and those of lower socioeconomic status. However, previous studies have not addressed the mediating role of ideological values such as egalitarianism or meritocratism in supporting UBI. Furthermore, studies have no…
The “hidden side” of intergroup contact
Intergroup contact is a powerful prejudice-reduction strategy, but research has also revealed its undesirable effects among the disadvantaged. To unravel these counterintuitive effects, we examine the explanatory role of sociostructural factors (permeability of group boundaries as well as stability and legitimacy of inequality) in the link between intergroup contact and both perceived group discrimination against the disadvantaged and support for…
European attachment and restrictive and inclusive policies towards ethnic minorities and immigrants
Having a strong attachment to Europe might be crucial in understanding support for policies affecting ethnic minorities and migrants arriving in Europe. However, research examining this link is limited. In 4 out of 5 studies ( N = 1,469), including correlational and experimental data, we found that greater European attachment was associated with support for restrictive policies such as border closures or increased security. These relationships we…
Moral exemplars promote positive attitudes, beliefs, intentions, and behaviors toward outgroups during the Covid-19 pandemic
Due to their response at the COVID-19 frontline, migrant essential workers became moral exemplars likely to boost emotions such as gratitude or admiration. We examined the effect of moral exemplars on outgroup attitudes, beliefs about the outgroup, intentions and behavior toward the outgroup, as well as the role of self-transcendent emotions in this link. Participants of an online panel-based experimental study ( N = 651) were randomly assigned t…
Who is willing to help Ukrainian refugees and why? The role of individual prosocial dispositions and superordinate European identity
In 2022, Europe experienced unprecedented citizen mobilizations to help Ukrainian refugees. Based on two parallel lines of scholarship, we examined individual prosocial dispositions and superordinate identities related to intentions to help Ukrainians. Employing a French‐speaking student sample in Belgium ( N = 374), in Study 1, we showed that dispositional prosociality and European identification were both positively related to intentions to hel…
Narratives of linguistic victimhood and majority groups’ acculturation strategies and multilingual attitudes
Ethnocultural diversity of immigrants' personal social networks, bicultural identity integration and global identification
There is some evidence that ethnocultural diversity encourages superordinate levels of categorisation, such as feeling identified with people globally. A remaining question is what type of engagement with diversity facilitates this link and why . We use immigrants' personal social network data and examine the link between global identification and ethnocultural diversity among closer relationships (i.e. strong network contacts, such as friendship…
When they cry
Emotional tears are vehicles for bonding between individuals, even with those belonging to different social categories. Yet, little is known about the reactions they provoke toward members of underprivileged groups such as immigrants or the explanatory mechanisms of their effects. Across three experiments (with 546 adults) using standardized images of emotional displays, we tested the effects of tears on cognitive inferences (of warmth and compet…
Social intergroup and temporal intrapersonal comparisons
Mentoring for Improving the Self-Esteem, Resilience, and Hope of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area
In the last few years, the number of unaccompanied youths arriving in Europe has increased steadily. During their settlement in host countries, they are exposed to a great variety of vulnerabilities, which have an impact on their mental health. This research examines the effects of participation in a mentoring programme on the psychological and educational outcomes among unaccompanied migrant youths who live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. Da…
United in diversity”
Diversity in social relations is important for reducing prejudice. Yet, the question of when this occurs remains open. Using a social network approach, we test whether the link between outgroup attitudes and number of intra- and intergroup contacts is moderated by type of relationship (strong vs. weak ties) and personality (openness to experience) while also considering network structure (connections between contacts). In a culturally diverse sam…
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Participation in multicultural awareness-raising community actions
Our results point out that participation in community awareness-raising activities has several positive outcomes, such as individual and collective empowerment, and elicits shared flow and self-transcendent emotions among immigrants and host nationals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved
Human values and ideological beliefs as predictors of attitudes toward immigrants across 20 countries
Immigration is a worldwide subject of interest, and studies about attitudes toward immigrants have been frequent due to immigration crises in different locations across the globe. We aimed at understanding individual‐level effects of human values and ideological beliefs (Right‐Wing Authoritarianism—RWA, and Social Dominance Orientation—SDO) on attitudes toward immigrants, and whether country‐level variables (perception of Islamic fundamentalism a…
Greedy elites and poor lambs
The present study examines current social representations associated with the origins of the Great War, a major event that has profoundly affected Europe. A survey conducted in 20 European countries (N = 1906 students in social sciences) shows a high consensus: The outbreak of the war is attributed to the warring nations’ leaders while the responsibility of the populations is minimized. Building on the concept of social representation of history …
Support for collective action against refugees
To understand recent anti‐refugee protests in Europe, we examined how different levels of inclusiveness of group identities (national, European, and global) are related to intentions to protest among native Europeans. We focused on the mediating role of autochthony (a belief that the first inhabitants of a territory are more entitled) and the moderating role of threat. Survey data from 11 European countries ( N = 1,909) showed that national ident…
Implicaciones de los estudios sobre memoria colectiva para la enseñanza de la historia
La investigación sobre la memoria colectiva y las representaciones sociales de la historia en el campo de la psicología social puede proporcionar reflexiones de interés para el fortalecimiento de las competencias meta-cognitivas en la enseñanza de la historia. En este capítulo se revisa la bibliografía existente y la investigación empírica en este campo. En primer lugar, se analizan los procesos a través de los cuales se conforman las memorias y …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Healthy’ identities? Revisiting rejection‐identification and rejection‐disidentification models among voluntary and forced immigrants
Rejection‐identification and rejection‐disidentification models propose that low‐status groups identify with their in‐group and disidentify with a high‐status out‐group in response to rejection by the latter. Our research tests these two models simultaneously among multiple groups of foreign‐born people living in two cultural contexts. We examined these effects on representative samples of 2446 refugees in the Netherlands (Study 1) and 1234 volun…
Healthy’ identities? Revisiting rejection‐identification and rejection‐disidentification models among voluntary and forced immigrants
Rejection‐identification and rejection‐disidentification models propose that low‐status groups identify with their in‐group and disidentify with a high‐status out‐group in response to rejection by the latter. Our research tests these two models simultaneously among multiple groups of foreign‐born people living in two cultural contexts. We examined these effects on representative samples of 2446 refugees in the Netherlands (Study 1) and 1234 volun…
Support for collective action against refugees
To understand recent anti‐refugee protests in Europe, we examined how different levels of inclusiveness of group identities (national, European, and global) are related to intentions to protest among native Europeans. We focused on the mediating role of autochthony (a belief that the first inhabitants of a territory are more entitled) and the moderating role of threat. Survey data from 11 European countries ( N = 1,909) showed that national ident…
Health-related quality of life, ethnicity and perceived discrimination among immigrants and natives in Spain
Clear differences in health status among natives and immigrants were recorded. The self-selection hypothesis was plausible for physical health of Colombians and Sub-Saharan African men. Acculturation stress could explain poorer mental health in immigrants compared with natives. The association between ethnicity and poor self-reported mental health appears to be partially mediated by discrimination
Who is willing to help Ukrainian refugees and why? The role of individual prosocial dispositions and superordinate European identity
In 2022, Europe experienced unprecedented citizen mobilizations to help Ukrainian refugees. Based on two parallel lines of scholarship, we examined individual prosocial dispositions and superordinate identities related to intentions to help Ukrainians. Employing a French‐speaking student sample in Belgium ( N = 374), in Study 1, we showed that dispositional prosociality and European identification were both positively related to intentions to hel…
Human values and ideological beliefs as predictors of attitudes toward immigrants across 20 countries
Immigration is a worldwide subject of interest, and studies about attitudes toward immigrants have been frequent due to immigration crises in different locations across the globe. We aimed at understanding individual‐level effects of human values and ideological beliefs (Right‐Wing Authoritarianism—RWA, and Social Dominance Orientation—SDO) on attitudes toward immigrants, and whether country‐level variables (perception of Islamic fundamentalism a…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Victorious justifications and criticism of defeated
Heroes of adjustment
Socially Desirable Responding
This article investigated the dimensionality, measurement invariance, and cross-cultural variations of social desirability. A total of 3,471 university students from 20 countries completed an adapted version of the Marlowe–Crowne scale. A two-dimensional structure was revealed in the pooled sample, distinguishing enhancement (endorsement of positive self-description) and denial (rejection of negative self-description). The factor structure was su…
Adaptación sociocultural de inmigrantes brasileños en el País Vasco
Esta investigación ha examinado el proceso de adaptación sociocultural de los inmigrantes y su relación con la adaptación psicológica y las estrategias de aculturación. Se entrevistó a 91 inmigrantes brasileños en el País Vasco. Se midieron las dificultades de adaptación sociocultural a través de la escala SCAS, las dificultades socio-económicas, la afectividad (PNA), la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud (CVRS-SF-12), la satisfacción con l…
The bright side of migration
The “hidden side” of intergroup contact
Intergroup contact is a powerful prejudice-reduction strategy, but research has also revealed its undesirable effects among the disadvantaged. To unravel these counterintuitive effects, we examine the explanatory role of sociostructural factors (permeability of group boundaries as well as stability and legitimacy of inequality) in the link between intergroup contact and both perceived group discrimination against the disadvantaged and support for…
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Greedy elites and poor lambs
The present study examines current social representations associated with the origins of the Great War, a major event that has profoundly affected Europe. A survey conducted in 20 European countries (N = 1906 students in social sciences) shows a high consensus: The outbreak of the war is attributed to the warring nations’ leaders while the responsibility of the populations is minimized. Building on the concept of social representation of history …
United in diversity”
Diversity in social relations is important for reducing prejudice. Yet, the question of when this occurs remains open. Using a social network approach, we test whether the link between outgroup attitudes and number of intra- and intergroup contacts is moderated by type of relationship (strong vs. weak ties) and personality (openness to experience) while also considering network structure (connections between contacts). In a culturally diverse sam…
What is the better predictor of students’ personal values
Support for unconditional basic income in Spain
Unconditional basic income (UBI) is a redistributive policy proposal that is receiving increasing attention in the Spanish political sphere. Welfare attitudes literature has shown that support for UBI is higher among left‐wing citizens and those of lower socioeconomic status. However, previous studies have not addressed the mediating role of ideological values such as egalitarianism or meritocratism in supporting UBI. Furthermore, studies have no…
Moral exemplars promote positive attitudes, beliefs, intentions, and behaviors toward outgroups during the Covid-19 pandemic
Due to their response at the COVID-19 frontline, migrant essential workers became moral exemplars likely to boost emotions such as gratitude or admiration. We examined the effect of moral exemplars on outgroup attitudes, beliefs about the outgroup, intentions and behavior toward the outgroup, as well as the role of self-transcendent emotions in this link. Participants of an online panel-based experimental study ( N = 651) were randomly assigned t…
Narratives of linguistic victimhood and majority groups’ acculturation strategies and multilingual attitudes
Participation in multicultural awareness-raising community actions
Our results point out that participation in community awareness-raising activities has several positive outcomes, such as individual and collective empowerment, and elicits shared flow and self-transcendent emotions among immigrants and host nationals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved
Implicaciones de los estudios sobre memoria colectiva para la enseñanza de la historia
La investigación sobre la memoria colectiva y las representaciones sociales de la historia en el campo de la psicología social puede proporcionar reflexiones de interés para el fortalecimiento de las competencias meta-cognitivas en la enseñanza de la historia. En este capítulo se revisa la bibliografía existente y la investigación empírica en este campo. En primer lugar, se analizan los procesos a través de los cuales se conforman las memorias y …
What is the better predictor of students’ personal values
Adaptación sociocultural de inmigrantes brasileños en el País Vasco
Esta investigación ha examinado el proceso de adaptación sociocultural de los inmigrantes y su relación con la adaptación psicológica y las estrategias de aculturación. Se entrevistó a 91 inmigrantes brasileños en el País Vasco. Se midieron las dificultades de adaptación sociocultural a través de la escala SCAS, las dificultades socio-económicas, la afectividad (PNA), la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud (CVRS-SF-12), la satisfacción con l…
Estatus grupal, discriminación, y adaptación en inmigrantes latinoamericanos y africanos en España
Partiendo de las teorías de la identidad social, este trabajo estudia el papel moderador de la percepción del estatus grupal entre la etnicidad y el ajuste psicosocial o la discriminación. Se aplicó una encuesta a una muestra cuasi-aleatoria a los dos principales grupos de inmigrantes en el País Vasco: latinoamericanos y africanos. Conforme a las hipótesis planteadas, las diferencias entre inmigrantes latinoamericanos y africanos en la adaptación…
Health-related quality of life, ethnicity and perceived discrimination among immigrants and natives in Spain
Clear differences in health status among natives and immigrants were recorded. The self-selection hypothesis was plausible for physical health of Colombians and Sub-Saharan African men. Acculturation stress could explain poorer mental health in immigrants compared with natives. The association between ethnicity and poor self-reported mental health appears to be partially mediated by discrimination
Victorious justifications and criticism of defeated
Heroes of adjustment
Socially Desirable Responding
This article investigated the dimensionality, measurement invariance, and cross-cultural variations of social desirability. A total of 3,471 university students from 20 countries completed an adapted version of the Marlowe–Crowne scale. A two-dimensional structure was revealed in the pooled sample, distinguishing enhancement (endorsement of positive self-description) and denial (rejection of negative self-description). The factor structure was su…
The bright side of migration
Flujo compartido en actividades colectivas físico-deportivas y bienestar subjetivo
Esta investigación estudia las actividades físico-deportivas como una fuente de flujo compartido o de experiencia óptima y su relación con el bienestar subjetivo. Se presentan dos estudios con estudiantes universitarios (N=88, N=285) que participan en actividades físicas y deportivas en grupo. Las medidas incluyen la calidad de la participación en la actividad, el flujo individual y compartido, las emociones positivas, y el bienestar subjetivo. E…
Shared flow in collective physical and sports activities and subjective well-being
This study examines physical and sport activities as a source of shared flow or optimal shared experiences and their relationship with subjective well-being (SWB). Two studies are presented with university students (N=88 and N=285) participating in group sports and physical activities. Measures included the degree of engagement in the activity, individual and shared flow, positive emotions, and subjective well-being (SWB). The first study showed …
Healthy’ identities? Revisiting rejection‐identification and rejection‐disidentification models among voluntary and forced immigrants
Rejection‐identification and rejection‐disidentification models propose that low‐status groups identify with their in‐group and disidentify with a high‐status out‐group in response to rejection by the latter. Our research tests these two models simultaneously among multiple groups of foreign‐born people living in two cultural contexts. We examined these effects on representative samples of 2446 refugees in the Netherlands (Study 1) and 1234 volun…
Implicaciones de los estudios sobre memoria colectiva para la enseñanza de la historia
La investigación sobre la memoria colectiva y las representaciones sociales de la historia en el campo de la psicología social puede proporcionar reflexiones de interés para el fortalecimiento de las competencias meta-cognitivas en la enseñanza de la historia. En este capítulo se revisa la bibliografía existente y la investigación empírica en este campo. En primer lugar, se analizan los procesos a través de los cuales se conforman las memorias y …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Greedy elites and poor lambs
The present study examines current social representations associated with the origins of the Great War, a major event that has profoundly affected Europe. A survey conducted in 20 European countries (N = 1906 students in social sciences) shows a high consensus: The outbreak of the war is attributed to the warring nations’ leaders while the responsibility of the populations is minimized. Building on the concept of social representation of history …
Support for collective action against refugees
To understand recent anti‐refugee protests in Europe, we examined how different levels of inclusiveness of group identities (national, European, and global) are related to intentions to protest among native Europeans. We focused on the mediating role of autochthony (a belief that the first inhabitants of a territory are more entitled) and the moderating role of threat. Survey data from 11 European countries ( N = 1,909) showed that national ident…
Human values and ideological beliefs as predictors of attitudes toward immigrants across 20 countries
Immigration is a worldwide subject of interest, and studies about attitudes toward immigrants have been frequent due to immigration crises in different locations across the globe. We aimed at understanding individual‐level effects of human values and ideological beliefs (Right‐Wing Authoritarianism—RWA, and Social Dominance Orientation—SDO) on attitudes toward immigrants, and whether country‐level variables (perception of Islamic fundamentalism a…
Mentoring for Improving the Self-Esteem, Resilience, and Hope of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area
In the last few years, the number of unaccompanied youths arriving in Europe has increased steadily. During their settlement in host countries, they are exposed to a great variety of vulnerabilities, which have an impact on their mental health. This research examines the effects of participation in a mentoring programme on the psychological and educational outcomes among unaccompanied migrant youths who live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. Da…
United in diversity”
Diversity in social relations is important for reducing prejudice. Yet, the question of when this occurs remains open. Using a social network approach, we test whether the link between outgroup attitudes and number of intra- and intergroup contacts is moderated by type of relationship (strong vs. weak ties) and personality (openness to experience) while also considering network structure (connections between contacts). In a culturally diverse sam…
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Participation in multicultural awareness-raising community actions
Our results point out that participation in community awareness-raising activities has several positive outcomes, such as individual and collective empowerment, and elicits shared flow and self-transcendent emotions among immigrants and host nationals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved
Ethnocultural diversity of immigrants' personal social networks, bicultural identity integration and global identification
There is some evidence that ethnocultural diversity encourages superordinate levels of categorisation, such as feeling identified with people globally. A remaining question is what type of engagement with diversity facilitates this link and why . We use immigrants' personal social network data and examine the link between global identification and ethnocultural diversity among closer relationships (i.e. strong network contacts, such as friendship…
When they cry
Emotional tears are vehicles for bonding between individuals, even with those belonging to different social categories. Yet, little is known about the reactions they provoke toward members of underprivileged groups such as immigrants or the explanatory mechanisms of their effects. Across three experiments (with 546 adults) using standardized images of emotional displays, we tested the effects of tears on cognitive inferences (of warmth and compet…
Social intergroup and temporal intrapersonal comparisons
The “hidden side” of intergroup contact
Intergroup contact is a powerful prejudice-reduction strategy, but research has also revealed its undesirable effects among the disadvantaged. To unravel these counterintuitive effects, we examine the explanatory role of sociostructural factors (permeability of group boundaries as well as stability and legitimacy of inequality) in the link between intergroup contact and both perceived group discrimination against the disadvantaged and support for…
European attachment and restrictive and inclusive policies towards ethnic minorities and immigrants
Having a strong attachment to Europe might be crucial in understanding support for policies affecting ethnic minorities and migrants arriving in Europe. However, research examining this link is limited. In 4 out of 5 studies ( N = 1,469), including correlational and experimental data, we found that greater European attachment was associated with support for restrictive policies such as border closures or increased security. These relationships we…
Psychology (30 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (9 works)