Exploring UK Public Attitudes Towards Stateless People
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Mixed graphical network
The Stateless Focal Network model (Figure 1) estimates associations between social policy
attitudes and prejudice towards stateless people, and the other study variables, without including
social policy attitudes and prejudice towards either asylum seekers or refugees in the network.
Separate network models for social policy attitudes and prejudice towards asylum seekers and
refugees are displayed alongside the Stateless Focal Network Model for comparison.
Figure 1. Stateless Focal Network model (stateless focal network model with refugee and asylum seeker focal networks for
comparison). The thicker and darker the edge, the larger the edge weight and stronger the unique association between two
variables. The colour of the edges indicates the relationship sign (i.e. positive = green, negative = red). Continuous variables
are represented as circles and categorical as squares. Variables are as follows: 1. Dominance, 2. Affiliation, 3. Age, 4. Political
Orientation, 5. Prejudice, 6. Social Policy Attitude, 7. Personal Migration Experience, 8. Contact, 9. Perceived Threat, 10.
Gender, 11. Ethnicity, 12. Education Level, 13. Employment.
An Integrated Network model (Figure 2) was also modelled. The Integrated Network modelled
the prejudice and social policy attitudes towards all three groups in one network. The partial
correlation matrices modelled by the networks are provided in the supplementary material.
Figure 2. Integrated Network model including measurement of prejudice and social policy attitudes towards stateless
people, refugees, and asylum seekers in one network together. The thicker and darker the edge, the larger the edge weight
and stronger the unique association between two variables. The colour of the edges indicates the relationship sign
(i.e. positive = green, negative = red). Continuous variables are represented as circles and categorical as squares. Variables are
as follows: 1. Dominance, 2. Affiliation, 3. Age, 4. Political Orientation, 5. Asylum Seeker Prejudice, 6. Stateless Prejudice, 7.
Refugee Prejudice 8. Refugee Social Policy, 9. Asylum Seeker Social Policy, 10. Stateless Social Policy, 11. Personal Migration
Experience, 12. Contact, 13. Perceived Threat, 14. Gender, 15. Ethnicity, 16. Education Level, 17. Employment.
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