Effects of Interethnic Contact on Friendship Choices in the Military

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AUTOR(ES) Yehuda Amir , Aharon Bizman , Miriam Rivner
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
ANO 1973
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
ISSN 0022-0221
E-ISSN 1552-5422
EDITORA SAGE Publications
DOI 10.1177/002202217300400307
CITAÇÕES 1
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 c1dfe9fb945de9e06478344a2c135ac8

Resumo

In 51 field platoons of the Israeli army, 1,411 soldiers served as subjects in a study designed to examine to what extent interethnic contact influences willingness to accept, as close friends, soldiers from other ethnic groups. The soldiers' friendship choices were obtained on two occasions-one before and the other six weeks after interethnic contact in the army. Results indicate that at the beginning of basic training, soldiers of European ethnic origin (higher-status group) revealed a significant preference for friends from their own group. Soldiers from Middle-Eastern descent (lower-status group) showed no ethnic preference. As a result of the interethnic contact, no significant change was found. However, in some specific contact situations there was a change, primarily among the soldiers of European origin, in the direction of choosing more Middle Eastern friends.

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