Assessing outgroup prejudice among secondary school pupils in northern England Introducing the Outgroup Prejudice Index.

Autor: Brockett, Adrian, Village, Andrew, Francis, Leslie J.
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Zdroj: Research in Education; May2010, Vol. 83 Issue 1, p67-77, 11p, 6 Charts
Abstrakt: The Outgroup Prejudice Index is a six-item scale that uses social distance to assess prejudice towards ethnic and religious out groups among Asians and whites. It was developed among a sample of 2,982 teenagers attending schools in northern England who indicated their religion as 'Muslim', 'Christian' or 'No religion'. The scale demonstrated internal consistency reliability among both Asian (Cronbach's alpha = 0.78) and white (Cronbach's alpha = 0.85) pupils. The scale demonstrated construct validity in two ways: scores were correlated with a second scale based on stereotyped attitudes, and were also lower among those with friends in outgroups, suggesting the index was a valid measure of ethnic or religious outgroup prejudice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index