Beliefs about White privilege drive affirmative-action attitudes only through White guilt.

Evidence

Finally, we tested whether the relationship between White privilege and attitudes toward affirmative action was significantly stronger when White guilt was not included in the regression than when it was included in the regression. We repeated these analyses replacing beliefs about White privilege with beliefs about the prevalence of discrimination. As shown in Table 2, these regressions support the argument that White guilt fully mediated the relationship from beliefs about White privilege to attitudes toward affirmative action and from the prevalence of discrimination to attitudes toward affirmative action. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 67

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White privilege boosts affirmative-action support only through White guilt, while discrimination beliefs do not. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 102; White guilt mediates privilege’s effect on affirmative action attitudes but not discrimination beliefs’ effect. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 102

Broader Connections

• White privilege boosts affirmative-action support only through White guilt, while discrimination beliefs do not. #corroborates (1.00) — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 102
• White guilt mediates privilege’s effect on affirmative action attitudes but not discrimination beliefs’ effect. #corroborates (0.95) — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 102