Value-driven attitude surveys

Lessons from the refugee crisis in Greece

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2395598
AutoresSameen Qadir (0000-0001-6641-0545, Thomas Jefferson University, autor correspondente), J Feruni (Psychology, Private Practice, Athens, Greece), A Mastora (Psychology, Private Practice, Athens, Greece), G Karampoutakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), M Tveit (0000-0002-7969-9314, George Washington University), Nikopoulo, S Nikopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), E Anitsi (0000-0001-5785-9762, Panteion University), D Cleary (0000-0003-4533-0700), Sean D Cleary (0000-0002-0789-2588, Milken Institute), A R Dyer (0000-0001-6768-9592, George Washington University), Philip J Candilis (0000-0003-3594-8013, George Washington University)
Ano2024
Volume61
Fascículo4
Páginas680-688
Data de publicação2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTranscultural Psychiatric Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0041-1108 • E-ISSN: 0315-4386
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13634615241245861
PMID38775054
OpenAlexW4398211263
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas31

Community reaction to refugees and asylum-seekers is often gauged by attitude surveys that are not designed to overcome built-in bias. Questionnaires that do not account for context and background consequently yield results that misrepresent community attitudes and offer predictably negative responses to immigrant groups. Such surveys can alter public perception, fuel anti-refugee sentiment, and affect policy simply because of how they are constructed. This model survey among humanitarian aid-workers from nine Greek non-governmental organizations uses specific techniques designed to overcome these challenges by applying sample familiarity, non-inflammatory hypothesis-testing, educational question stems, intentional ordering of questions, and direct questioning rather than surrogate measures like statistical approximation. Respondents working in the refugee crisis in Greece demonstrate how empathy, education, and exposure to refugees serve to overcome the harmful stereotypes of outsiders as contributors to crime, terror, and social burden

Affect (linguistics · Asylum seeker · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Empathy · Geography · Immigration · Perception · Political science · Public relations · Refugee · Sample (material · Value (mathematics · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology