The role of identity development on latent and manifest prejudice. The perception of immigrants in Italian university context

Each identity is a particular story, developed through perceptions, feelings, thoughts and symbolic interactions. The study examines the predictor variables to the latent and manifest prejudice, and relationship between identity development and prejudice. The research involves 187 Italian college students. They completed: Ego Identity Process Questionnaire, Latent Subtle and Blatant Prejudice Scale. As hypothesized, there is a different identity development due to the age variable, and a variant level of prejudge related to the gender; the results show, confirming the hypothesis, the presence of a correlation between ideological domains such as religion and politics and the level of manifest prejudice.