Ed Cairns
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3655795 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ed Cairns |
| PRENOMES | Ed |
| SOBRENOME | Cairns |
| ASSINATURA | CAIRNS E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ulster |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 728 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Classroom segregation
With increasing ethnic and racial diversity in the classroom, understanding classroom dynamics and the use of space has become increasingly important. In particular, when theoretical perspectives, such as that offered by intergroup contact research, promotes the importance of contact between competing groups to improve relations. Adopting a behavioural approach, the research presented here observed intergroup behaviour between Protestants and Cat…
Political Violence and Adolescent Out‐group Attitudes and Prosocial Behaviors
The negative impact of political violence on adolescent adjustment is well-established. Less is known about factors that affect adolescents' positive outcomes in ethnically-divided societies, especially influences on prosocial behaviors toward the outgroup, which may promote constructive relations. For example, understanding how intergroup experiences and attitudes motivate outgroup helping may foster intergroup cooperation and help to consolidat…
Predicting intergroup forgiveness from in-group identification and collective guilt in adolescent and adult affiliates of a Northern Irish cross-community organization
Intergroup contact and intergroup conflict
Intergroup contact theory is enjoying a renaissance; positive contact does reduce intergroup prejudice, but intergroup contact has generally been studied in relatively benign settings. With a number of countries either still experiencing or having just emerged from periods of pervasive intergroup animosity, contact theory is, nowadays, being put to its most stringent test as contact theorists try to uncover ways in which intergroup conflict can b…
Predictors of Strength of In‐Group Identity in Northern Ireland
Social identity in Northern Ireland is multifaceted, with historical, religious, political, social, economic, and psychological underpinnings. Understanding the factors that influence the strength of identity with the Protestant or Catholic community, the two predominate social groups in Northern Ireland, has implications for individual well-being as well as for the continuation of tension and violence in this setting of protracted intergroup con…
Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content
Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model ( SCM ) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio‐economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and …
Relations between political violence and child adjustment
This study further explored the impact of sectarian violence and children's emotional insecurity about community on child maladjustment using a 4-wave longitudinal design. The study included 999 mother-child dyads in Belfast, Northern Ireland (482 boys, 517 girls). Across the 4 waves, child mean age was 12.19 (SD = 1.82), 13.24 (SD = 1.83), 13.61 (SD = 1.99), and 14.66 years (SD = 1.96), respectively. Building on previous studies of the role of e…
Social Identity and Youth Aggressive and Delinquent Behaviors in a Context of Political Violence
The goal of the current study was to examine the moderating role of in‐group social identity on relations between youth exposure to sectarian antisocial behavior in the community and aggressive behaviors. Participants included 770 mother‐child dyads living in interfaced neighborhoods of Belfast. Youth answered questions about aggressive and delinquent behaviors as well as the extent to which they targeted their behaviors toward members of the oth…
It's never too late for 'us' to meet 'them
Background. In this paper, we focused on mixing in educational settings between members of Catholic and Protestant ethnoreligious groups in Northern Ireland.Aims. In Study 1, we examined whether opportunities for contact at home and at university were associated with greater actual out-group friendships, and whether this friendship was associated with a reduction in prejudice. We also assessed whether the impact of out-group friendships at univer…
Peacemaking youth programmes in Northern Ireland
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review psychology‐based programmes, which were developed to bring together children and young people from Protestant and Catholic backgrounds following the outbreak of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Design/methodology/approach The authors focused on reporting findings from early research papers and reviews as well as more recent studies. They examined the role of holiday schemes and then the development …
Maternal Religiosity, Family Resources and Stressors, and Parent–Child Attachment Security in Northern Ireland
This study explores the associations between mothers' religiosity, and families' and children's functioning in a stratified random sample of 695 Catholic and Protestant mother-child dyads in socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a region which has experienced centuries of sectarian conflict between Protestant Unionists and Catholics Nationalists. Findings based on mother and child surveys indicated that even in this context of his…
Political Violence and Child Adjustment
Understanding the impact of political violence on child maladjustment is a matter of international concern. Recent research has advanced a social ecological explanation for relations between political violence and child adjustment. However, conclusions are qualified by the lack of longitudinal tests. Toward examining pathways longitudinally, mothers and their adolescents (M = 12.33, SD = 1.78, at Time 1) from 2-parent families in Catholic and Pro…
Handbook on Peace Education
This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out . The discipline is a composite of contributions from a variety of disciplines ranging from social psychology to philosophy and from communication to political science. That is, peace education is an applied subject which is practiced in differing ways, but must always be firmly based on a…
Parenting Control in Contexts of Political Violence
OBJECTIVE: The goal of the present study is to examine bi-directional relations between youth exposure to sectarian and nonsectarian antisocial behavior and mothers' efforts to control youth's exposure to community violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland. DESIGN: Mother-child dyads (N=773) were interviewed in their homes twice over 2 years regarding youth's exposure to sectarian (SAB) and nonsectarian (NAB) community antisocial behavior and mothers…
Extended contact effects as a function of closeness of relationship with ingroup contacts
Using survey data from Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland ( N = 428), the authors examined the effects of extended contact via different types of ingroup contacts (neighbors, work colleagues, friends, and family members) and tested whether closeness to ingroup contacts moderated the effects of extended contact on outgroup trust. Results demonstrated that extended contact effects varied as a function of the relationship to ingroup conta…
Sectarian and nonsectarian violence
Past research on peace and conflict in Northern Ireland has focused on politically-motivated violence. However, other types of crime (i.e., nonsectarian) also impact community members. To study the changing nature of violence since the signing of the Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland the current study used qualitative methods to distinguish between nonsectarian and sectarian antisocial behavior. Analyses were conducted using the Constant Comp…
Associations between mothers' experience with the troubles in Northern Ireland and mothers' and children's psychological functioning
Relatively little research has examined the relations between growing up in a community with a history of protracted violent political conflict and subsequent generations' well‐being. The current article examines relations between mothers' self‐report of the impact that the historical political violence in Northern Ireland (known as the Troubles) has on her and her child's current mental health. These relations are framed within the social identi…
Direct Contact as a Moderator of Extended Contact Effects
Cross-group friendships (the most effective form of direct contact) and extended contact (i.e., knowing ingroup members who have outgroup friends) constitute two of the most important means of improving outgroup attitudes. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal samples from different intergroup contexts, this research demonstrates that extended contact is most effective when individuals live in segregated neighborhoods having only few, or no, dir…
Political violence and child adjustment in Northern Ireland
Moving beyond simply documenting that political violence negatively impacts children, we tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including single- and two-parent families. Sectarian community violence was associated with elevated family conflict …
Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact
Although intergroup contact is one of the most prominent interventions to reduce prejudice, the generalization of contact effects is still a contentious issue. This research further examined the rarely studied secondary transfer effect (STE; Pettigrew, 2009), by which contact with a primary outgroup reduces prejudice toward secondary groups that are not directly involved in the contact. Across 3 cross-sectional studies conducted in Cyprus (N = 1,…
Antecedents and Consequences of Social Identity Complexity
Social identity complexity defines people's more or less complex cognitive representations of the interrelationships among their multiple ingroup identities. Being high in complexity is contingent on situational, cognitive, or motivational factors, and has positive consequences for intergroup relations. Two survey studies conducted in Northern Ireland examined the extent to which intergroup contact and distinctiveness threat act as antecedents, a…
The differential impact on children of inter- and intra-community violence in Northern Ireland
This study explores distinctions in Northern Ireland between inter-community (i.e. sectarian) and intra-community (i.e. nonsectarian) violence and their respective impacts on children, and considers these forms of violence in relation to children's processes of emotional security about community conflict. Preliminary work was based on focus groups with mothers in Belfast, followed by a quantitative study involving mothers in Derry/Londonderry. Su…
Impact of Conflict on Mental Health in Northern Ireland
The aim of the present research was to investigate the mediating role of group‐level forgiveness and guilt in the relationship between victimhood (the extent to which the conflict affected an individual's life), exposure to violence (the level of violence in their area of residence), and group identity on the one hand, and mild psychiatric morbidity on the other. Specifically the study focused on the psychological impact of the ethnopolitical con…
Intergroup Trust in Northern Ireland
Although prominent political agendas have placed a great deal of importance on building trust in postconflict areas, there has been a lack of empirical research on its role in areas of intergroup conflict. The authors conducted two studies to examine the relationship between trust and intergroup behavioral tendencies-and the potential for intergroup contact to build trust in Northern Ireland. Study 1 showed that outgroup trust mediates the impact…
Postconflict Reconciliation
Even after a conflict has formally ended, there is still a need for postconflict reconciliation and the building of mutual forgiveness and trust between communities. This article addresses psychological processes crucial to moving beyond a history of violent sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. We investigated the predictors of intergroup forgiveness, in terms of intergroup emotions, infrahumanization, empathy, and intergroup contact. Intergro…
Cross‐Community Contact, Perceived Status Differences, and Intergroup Attitudes in Northern Ireland
We tested a model which examined the relationship between contact quantity and quality, relative ingroup status, and intergroup attitudes in Northern Ireland. Intergroup anxiety was considered an individual‐level mediator and realistic and symbolic threat as group‐level mediators in the model. We examined the idea that the strength of ingroup identification moderates the predictive power of individual‐ versus group‐level variables. Both contact a…
The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict
PART I: INTRODUCTION Why Memories in Conflict? E.Cairns & M.D.Roe Theoretical Overview of Memory and Conflict P.Devine-Wright PART II: MEMORIES OF ABORIGINAL PASTS AND CURRENT CONFLICTS Reconciliation Between Black and White Australia: The Role of Social Memory: D.Mellor & D.Bretherton Cowlitz Indian Ethnic Identity, Social Memories, and One Hundred and Fifty Years of Conflict with the United States Government M.D.Roe PART III: CONFLICTING MEMORI…
Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and Experience of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland
Two studies used random sample surveys to test the “contact hypothesis” on intergroup attitudes of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. In Study 1, archival data from two different surveys in 1989 ( N = 310 Catholics, 422 Protestants) and 1991 ( N = 319 Catholics, 478 Protestants) showed that contact was positively related to attitudes toward denominational mixing. Study 2 ( N = 391 Catholics, 647 Protestants) explored predictors of int…
Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact
Although intergroup contact is one of the most prominent interventions to reduce prejudice, the generalization of contact effects is still a contentious issue. This research further examined the rarely studied secondary transfer effect (STE; Pettigrew, 2009), by which contact with a primary outgroup reduces prejudice toward secondary groups that are not directly involved in the contact. Across 3 cross-sectional studies conducted in Cyprus (N = 1,…
The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland
Although prejudice researchers have mainly focused their attention on changing attitudes toward outgroups, other outcome variables may also be important. In post-conflict reconciliation, intergroup forgiveness may play a crucial role in helping groups in conflict put the atrocities of the past behind them (Cairns, Tam, Hewstone, & Niens, 2005). Two studies showed that both the specific intergroup emotion of anger and infrahumanization (the attrib…
Moving out of conflict
As the integrated education movement in Northern Ireland passes its twenty‐first anniversary, it is pertinent to explore the legacy of mixed Catholic and Protestant schooling. This paper summarises the findings of different studies regarding the impact of integrated education in Northern Ireland on social identity, intergroup attitudes and forgiveness and reconciliation. The research is discussed in relation to its implications for the theory and…
Extended contact effects as a function of closeness of relationship with ingroup contacts
Using survey data from Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland ( N = 428), the authors examined the effects of extended contact via different types of ingroup contacts (neighbors, work colleagues, friends, and family members) and tested whether closeness to ingroup contacts moderated the effects of extended contact on outgroup trust. Results demonstrated that extended contact effects varied as a function of the relationship to ingroup conta…
Intergroup contact and intergroup conflict
Intergroup contact theory is enjoying a renaissance; positive contact does reduce intergroup prejudice, but intergroup contact has generally been studied in relatively benign settings. With a number of countries either still experiencing or having just emerged from periods of pervasive intergroup animosity, contact theory is, nowadays, being put to its most stringent test as contact theorists try to uncover ways in which intergroup conflict can b…
Postconflict Reconciliation
Even after a conflict has formally ended, there is still a need for postconflict reconciliation and the building of mutual forgiveness and trust between communities. This article addresses psychological processes crucial to moving beyond a history of violent sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. We investigated the predictors of intergroup forgiveness, in terms of intergroup emotions, infrahumanization, empathy, and intergroup contact. Intergro…
Forgiveness in Northern Ireland
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Situational perspectives on social identity in Northern Ireland
Tajfel (1981) has argued that his concept of the group‐derived social identity is best thought of as an ‘intervening causal mechanism’ operating in diverse social situations. The rationale for this ‘dynamic’ approach is that invariant conditions are unlikely in intergroup social relations while the way in which these relationships are perceived is even less likely to be static. The implication is that individuals may vary in terms of their social…
Impact of Conflict on Mental Health in Northern Ireland
The aim of the present research was to investigate the mediating role of group‐level forgiveness and guilt in the relationship between victimhood (the extent to which the conflict affected an individual's life), exposure to violence (the level of violence in their area of residence), and group identity on the one hand, and mild psychiatric morbidity on the other. Specifically the study focused on the psychological impact of the ethnopolitical con…
Views on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland
Social Identity and Youth Aggressive and Delinquent Behaviors in a Context of Political Violence
The goal of the current study was to examine the moderating role of in‐group social identity on relations between youth exposure to sectarian antisocial behavior in the community and aggressive behaviors. Participants included 770 mother‐child dyads living in interfaced neighborhoods of Belfast. Youth answered questions about aggressive and delinquent behaviors as well as the extent to which they targeted their behaviors toward members of the oth…
Segregation in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland it is estimated that 35–40 per cent of Protestants and Catholics live in communities divided along ethno-sectarian lines, and some research suggests increasing segregation in recent years. A recent policy initiative to promote a ‘Shared Future’ acknowledges that the problems of residential segregation relate, at least in part, to endemic fear and sense of threat in divided communities. The research presented in this article re…
Political violence and child adjustment in Northern Ireland
Moving beyond simply documenting that political violence negatively impacts children, we tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including single- and two-parent families. Sectarian community violence was associated with elevated family conflict …
Conflict, Contact, and Education in Northern Ireland
This article outlines educational responses to the conflict in Northern Ireland designed to promote intergroup harmony. Current research about the impact of these programs on children and young people is also reviewed to draw conclusions for practitioners in formal and informal educational settings who want to use intergroup contact to implement education for peace in the most effective way. The contact hypothesis has provided the theoretical fra…
Psychology's contribution to understanding conflict in Northern Ireland
This article reviews the work of psychologists in Northern Ireland as applied to various aspects of the ongoing political conflict. Three major research strands are identified: (a) attempts to understand the impact of the political conflict on the mental health of children and adults, and the way they have learned to cope with the associated stress; (b) studies directed at understanding the dynamics of the conflict especially through Social Ident…
Impact of political violence on images of war and peace in the drawings of primary school children
Protestant primary school children (N = 181) from 3 schools representing areas in Northern Ireland with high and low political and sectarian violence, and 1 area in England with no political and sectarian violence, were asked to draw pictures of peace and war. Three hypotheses were explored: (a) Northern Irish children to a greater extent than English children would emphasise the concept of peace as the absence of war; (b) children from the high-…
Social Identity in Northern Ireland
In an attempt to explore the importance of various religious ethnic and political social identities in Northern Ireland, 991 young people (60% Protestants, 40% Catholics) were asked to choose among various bipolar adjectives and then to rank order the terms chosen. The results indicated that the Catholic-Protestant dimension was the most frequently chosen and most highly rated ethnopolitical category but that some cross-cutting occurred on all ca…
Peacemaking youth programmes in Northern Ireland
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review psychology‐based programmes, which were developed to bring together children and young people from Protestant and Catholic backgrounds following the outbreak of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Design/methodology/approach The authors focused on reporting findings from early research papers and reviews as well as more recent studies. They examined the role of holiday schemes and then the development …
Identity Preference in Northern Ireland
Sociopolitical identity is seen by many as the key to understanding the conflict in Ireland and for this reason has been the subject of several major surveys. However, these surveys can be criticized because they have not employed techniques that properly allow for comparisons between the various possible identities. The present study overcame this criticism by making use of a paired-comparison technique which allowed the four identities-British,…
W hat ’ s T here to F ear ?”—A C omparative S tudy of R esponses to the O ut ‐G roup in M ixed and S egregated A reas of B elfast
Despite some significant political developments and the advent of paramilitary cease‐fires, Northern Ireland remains a deeply divided society characterized by high levels of residential segregation. Although a causal link between segregation and intercommunity conflict has not been established, a wealth of research data points to the benefits of intercommunity contact in divided societies. Drawing on theoretical literature from social psychology,…
Political Violence and Adolescent Out‐group Attitudes and Prosocial Behaviors
The negative impact of political violence on adolescent adjustment is well-established. Less is known about factors that affect adolescents' positive outcomes in ethnically-divided societies, especially influences on prosocial behaviors toward the outgroup, which may promote constructive relations. For example, understanding how intergroup experiences and attitudes motivate outgroup helping may foster intergroup cooperation and help to consolidat…
It's never too late for 'us' to meet 'them
Background. In this paper, we focused on mixing in educational settings between members of Catholic and Protestant ethnoreligious groups in Northern Ireland.Aims. In Study 1, we examined whether opportunities for contact at home and at university were associated with greater actual out-group friendships, and whether this friendship was associated with a reduction in prejudice. We also assessed whether the impact of out-group friendships at univer…
Impulsivity
S ummary . A sample of 98 boys, aged 11–12 years, completed the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory and were individually administered Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures test of reflection/impulsivity. Four groups were formed on the basis of median splits on two indices of impulsivity and a two‐way analysis of variance was carried out against Eysenck's personality dimensions and an additional impulsivity factor derived from the same inventory. Th…
A comparison of journal citation patterns of British and North American authors publishing in British journals
A comparison of journal citation patterns of British and North American authors publishing in British journals
The role of visual imagery in visual, tactual and cross‐modal matching
The Reliability of the Matching Familiar Figures Test
S ummary . Despite the large amount of interest shown in Kagan's conceptual tempo dimension only limited evidence is available regarding the reliability of the principal test, the Matching Familiar Figures test. The present study examined the split‐half reliability of the MFF in 50 9‐year‐old boys and 50 12‐year‐old boys. Response time reliabilities were adequate, but error score reliabilities were less than satisfactory
Development of a more reliable version of the Matching Familiar Figures Test
Conservatism and its relationship to general and specific ethnocentrism in Northern Ireland
Measures of conservatism, general ethnocentrism and ethnocentrism specifically related to Northern Irish ethnopolitical ideas were obtained from Protestant and Catholic, male and female adolescents. These suggested that while both groups are equally conservative this was related to specific Northern Irish ethnocentrism only for the Protestant group. It was suggested that this may be related to the fact that the Catholic (minority) group fail to s…
Social Identity in Northern Ireland
In an attempt to explore the importance of various religious ethnic and political social identities in Northern Ireland, 991 young people (60% Protestants, 40% Catholics) were asked to choose among various bipolar adjectives and then to rank order the terms chosen. The results indicated that the Catholic-Protestant dimension was the most frequently chosen and most highly rated ethnopolitical category but that some cross-cutting occurred on all ca…
Situational perspectives on social identity in Northern Ireland
Tajfel (1981) has argued that his concept of the group‐derived social identity is best thought of as an ‘intervening causal mechanism’ operating in diverse social situations. The rationale for this ‘dynamic’ approach is that invariant conditions are unlikely in intergroup social relations while the way in which these relationships are perceived is even less likely to be static. The implication is that individuals may vary in terms of their social…
Social Class, Psychological Wellbeing and Minority Status in Northern Ireland
The present study sought to evaluate the completing claims of the social stress hypothesis and the social selection hypothesis which both claim to explain the relationship between social class and psychopathology. Scores on a self-report measure of psychological wellbeing, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were obtained from a random sample of 581 respondents in Northern Ireland. An analysis of variance comparing majority (Protestant) and mi…
Caught in Crossfire
A Generation Divided
An inquiry into the lives of children of similar, if not identical, historical an cultural heritage who today find themselves in radically opposed ideological worlds, regarding one another across the concrete manifestation of their considerable differences, the Berlin Wall. Under these circumstances, what are the significant factors that contribute to the development in children of feelings of loyalty to or alienation from their nation? How do th…
Coping with political violence in Northern Ireland
The Relationship Between Adolescent Perceived Self-competence and Attendance at Single-sex Secondary School
The study examined young people's self-esteem measured using a multidimensional measure of self-esteem, Harter's Perceived Competence Scale, as well as a measure of locus of control, in relation to the type of school they attended-single-sex or co-educational. A sample of students (N = 2295) from both academic and less academic schools was employed. The results indicated that among children (N = 577) attending the more academic grammar schools on…
Identity Preference in Northern Ireland
Sociopolitical identity is seen by many as the key to understanding the conflict in Ireland and for this reason has been the subject of several major surveys. However, these surveys can be criticized because they have not employed techniques that properly allow for comparisons between the various possible identities. The present study overcame this criticism by making use of a paired-comparison technique which allowed the four identities-British,…
Parental Involvement in Education
Increased parental involvement in schooling is one of the central plans of government policy. The planned integrated schools in Northern Ireland provide direct evidence of high levels of parental participation in action. The experience of the schools suggests, that whilst parental involvement is relatively easy to generate during the initial stages of the setting up of a school it is much more difficult to sustain over the long term. There is als…
How do parents choose a school for their child? An example of the exercise of parental choice
Increased provision for parents to exercise choice in the education of their children is one of the central objectives of recent government education policy in the UK. The establishment of new 'planned integrated schools' in Northern Ireland has provided a group of parents with a new opportunity to make choices. This research investigates the motives of parents who have decided to send their children to integrated schools. Five main sets of deter…
A Different Sort of Teaching, a Different Sort of Teacher? Teachers in integrated schools in Northern Ireland
(1994). A Different Sort of Teaching, a Different Sort of Teacher? Teachers in integrated schools in Northern Ireland. Comparative Education: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 153-163
The Sociomoral Reflection Measure — Short Form
Gibbs, Basinger & Fuller (1992) have developed a new production measure to examine moral judgment, the Sociomoral Reflection Measure Short Form (SRM‐SF). The validity and reliability of this measure have been established using a North American sample only. This study investigates the test‐retest reliability, internal consistency, convergent validity and concurrent validity of this US production measure using Northern Irish children and young peop…
Children and Conflict
The arrival of troops on the streets of Northern Ireland had the effect of placing local children firmly in the world’s spotlight. Twenty-five years later the words ‘Children in Northern Ireland’ can still conjure up the image of a very small child, stone in hand taking on the might of the British army on some dreary Belfast or Derry street. This image influenced what people thought in the early days of the ‘troubles’ would happen to children in …
Psychology's contribution to understanding conflict in Northern Ireland
This article reviews the work of psychologists in Northern Ireland as applied to various aspects of the ongoing political conflict. Three major research strands are identified: (a) attempts to understand the impact of the political conflict on the mental health of children and adults, and the way they have learned to cope with the associated stress; (b) studies directed at understanding the dynamics of the conflict especially through Social Ident…
Church Attendance in Northern Ireland
While it is widely acknowledged that Northern Ireland is a religious society, Protestants still do not attend church as often as do Catholics. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to employ the Ajzen and Fishbein framework to investigate what factors help to explain why Catholics attend church more regularly than do Protestants. To this end, 333 undergraduate students in the faculty of Social and Health Science at the University of Ulster…
Political Violence and Moral Maturity in Northern Ireland
The Sociomoral Reflection Measure-Short Form (SRM-SF; Gibbs, Basinger & Fuller, 1992) was presented to 421 Northern Irish children and adolescents. The sample consisted of participants from both of the religious communities, from either two areas of high political violence or two areas with low levels of political conflict. Analysis of the results indicated that children in the areas with high levels ofpolitical conflict scored at a lower level o…
The conflict in Northern Ireland
The Machel Study
The study prepared for the United Nations (UN) by Mm. Graca Machel is the first initiative to provide a global and coordinated approach to the situation of children in armed conflict. The central importance of the document is its attempt to reduce children's vulnerability to the conditions of violent conflict, through the implementation of proposals that would bind UN member states and parties to armed conflict to carry out certain practices aime…
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