Building on intersectional awareness literature, this paper examines how another individual difference regarding one’s perception of identity intersections — bicultural identity conflict (BII-C)— predicts immigrants’ interpretations of their social environment and general orientation to take action to support immigrants from one’s heritage group (GOA-I). While previous research has shown that BII-C, or perceived conflict (vs. harmony) between multiple cultural identities, is related to negative intergroup outcomes, we extend this research to examine how BII-C relates to social change actions that promote a more equitable society. An experimental study with 165 first- and second-generation immigrants living in the United States found support for a moderated mediation model. BII-C moderated the relationship between discrimination and the degree to which participants attributed discrimination to societal factors. These attributions were associated with GOA-I. Future research should consider additional individual differences, beyond intersectional awareness and BII-C, to see how these orientations may also act as a lens through which people interpret their social environment and are willing to take action to change it.

本文以交叉意识文献为基础，研究了关于身份交叉的认知的另一个个体差异（双文化身份冲突（BII-C））如何预测移民对其社会环境和总体取向的解释，以采取行动来支持来自某个文化遗产群体的移民（GOA-I）。虽然先前的研究表明BII-C或多种文化身份之间的感知冲突（相对于和谐）与负面的群体间结果有关，但我们将这项研究扩展到研究BII-C如何与促进更公平的社会变革行动相关社会。对居住在美国的165名第一代和第二代移民进行的一项实验研究发现，人们支持采用温和调解模式。BII-C缓和了歧视与参与者将歧视归因于社会因素的程度之间的关系。这些归因与GOA-1有关。未来的研究应考虑除交叉意识和BII-C之外的其他个体差异，以了解这些取向还可以如何充当人们解释其社会环境并愿意采取行动来改变它的镜头。