Managing immigration is a challenge at the political, economic, and social levels. Clarifying the social psychological antecedents behind the onset of negative attitudes towards immigrants might help overcome this challenge. The present study investigates the relationships between people’s experience of social exclusion, feelings of generalized interpersonal trust, and anti-immigrant attitudes across 23 European countries. We used data from the European Social Survey 8 (2016), employing a representative sample of the European population. A 1–1–1 multilevel mediation model showed that: (a) the higher the experience of social exclusion, the lower the generalized trust towards others; (b) the experience of social exclusion related positively and directly with anti-immigration attitudes; and (c) generalized interpersonal trust mediated the relationship between experienced social exclusion and anti-immigrant attitudes so that the experience of being socially excluded reduced feelings of generalized interpersonal trust that, in turn, promoted hostile attitudes towards immigrants. Taken together, these results create a platform for future research on the emergence of negative attitudes towards immigrants and factors that might facilitate the development of a climate of integration and acceptance.

在政治，经济和社会层面，管理移民是一项挑战。弄清对移民持消极态度发生后的社会心理先例，可能有助于克服这一挑战。本研究调查了欧洲23个国家/地区的人们的社会排斥经历，普遍的人际信任感和反移民态度之间的关系。我们使用了欧洲社会调查8（2016）的数据，采用了欧洲人口的代表性样本。一个1-1-1的多层调解模型表明：（a）社会排斥的经历越高，对他人的普遍信任就越低；（b）社会排斥的经历与反移民态度有正面和直接的关系；（c）普遍的人际信任介导了经历的社会排斥与反移民态度之间的关系，因此被社会排斥的经历减少了普遍的人际信任的感觉，进而促进了对移民的敌对态度。综上所述，这些结果为将来对移民的负面态度和可能促进融合和接纳气氛发展的因素的消极态度的研究提供了平台。