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Friendships and outgroup attitudes among ethnic minority youth: The mediating role of ethnic and host society identification |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, and Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, Groningen, The Netherlands;2. Utrecht University, and The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Utrecht, The Netherlands;1. Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, Turkey;2. Middle East Technical University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway;1. Department of Social Research (Social Psychology), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 54 (Unioninkatu 37), FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland;2. Open University, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 3 A), FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland;1. Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia;2. McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton, VIC 3010, Australia;3. School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Room 426, Brennan MacCallum Building, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;4. Victoria Institute, Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne, VIC 8001, Australia |
| Abstract: | This study investigates among ethnic minority adolescents how friendships with ethnic minority and majority group peers are related to their attitudes towards the majority outgroup.Friendships with majority group peers are proposed to be indirectly related to outgroup attitudes through host society identification. Friendships with ethnic ingroup peers are proposed to be indirectly related to outgroup attitudes through ethnic ingroup identification.Hypotheses were tested longitudinally among ethnic minority adolescents (n = 244) who recently entered middle schools in the Netherlands. Lagged structural equation models showed that friendships with majority group peers were related to stronger identification with the host society which was in turn related to improved attitudes toward the majority outgroup. Ingroup friendships and ingroup identification was not related to outgroup attitudes. Additional analyses indicated that the relation between host society identification and majority group friendships was bidirectional. |
| Keywords: | Ingroup friendships Outgroup friendships Ethnic ingroup identification Host society identification Outgroup attitudes |
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