The relationships among interracial friendship, personality, and racial attitudes

Previous research indicates: that openness and agreeableness positively correlate with racial attitudes, and the importance of interracial friendship on reducing racial bias ( e.g.,Jackson & Poulsen, 2005). Hypotheses included: 1) individuals high on openness and/or agreeableness will report more positive racial attitudes, 2) positive racial attitudes will increase as the quantity and/or quality of interracial friendship increases, and 3) interracial friendship is a moderator between personality and racial attitudes. Participants (n = 217) completed an online survey containing the Big Five Inventory (2001 ), Brigham's ( 1993) Racial Attitudes Scale, a modified interracial contact questionnaire (Tropp and Pettigrew, 2005), Altemeyer's (2005) RWA Scale, and Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth. and Malle's (1994) SDO Scale. Results indicated that: openness and agreeableness were positively correlated with racial attitudes, quality and quantity of friendship were not significantly correlated with racial attitudes, and interracial friendship does not act as a moderator. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Suchy, Paula A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• O'Leary, Brian
• Cothran, Lisa; Ourth, Lynn
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Interracial friendship
• Race awareness

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• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Identifier

LB2369.2 .S923 2007

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oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2126