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Ethnic Diversity, Inter-group Attitudes and Countervailing Pathways of Positive and Negative Inter-group Contact

An Analysis Across Workplaces and Neighbourhoods

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ID2062852
AuthorsJ Laurence (0000-0002-3412-2431, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Katharina Schmid (0000-0001-6018-9245, Universitat Ramon Llull), Miles Hewstone (0000-0002-8861-0465, University of Oxford)
Year2018
Volume136
Issue2
Pages719-749
Publication date2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Indicators Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0303-8300 • E-ISSN: 1573-0921
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11205-017-1570-z
PMID29563660
OpenAlexW2582140731
LanguageEN
Citations received47
References cited53

This study advances the current literature investigating the relationship between contextual out-group exposure, inter-group attitudes and the role of inter-group contact. Firstly, it introduces the concept of contact-valence into this relationship; that is, whether contact is experienced positively or negatively. Secondly, it presents a comparative analysis of how processes of out-group exposure and frequency of (valenced) contact affect prejudice across both neighbourhoods and workplaces. Applying path analysis modelling to a nationally-representative sample of white British individuals in England, we demonstrate, across both contexts, that increasing out-group exposure is associated with higher rates of both positively- and negatively-valenced contact. This results in exposure exhibiting both positive and negative indirect associations with prejudice via more frequent inter-group mixing. These countervailing contact-pathways help explain how out-group exposure is associated with inter-group attitudes. In neighbourhoods, increasing numbers of individuals experiencing positive-contact suppress an otherwise negative effect of neighbourhood diversity (driven partly by increasing numbers of individuals reporting negative contact). Across workplaces the effect differs such that increasing numbers of individuals experiencing negative-contact suppress an otherwise positive effect of workplace diversity (driven largely by increasing numbers of individuals experiencing positive contact

Affect (linguistics · Contact hypothesis · Contact theory · Diversity (politics · Ethnic group · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Prejudice (legal term · Public health · Quality of Life Research · Sociology · Valence (chemistry · Communication · Demography · Medicine · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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