Ethnic-Racial Identity and Attitude Change: Assessments of Outgroup and Diversity Attitudes among Adolescents in Sweden.
J Youth Adolesc
; 53(11): 2499-2518, 2024 Nov.
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| ID: mdl-38833035
ABSTRACT
Outgroup and diversity attitudes are important components of intercultural understanding and well-being. Despite the potential of ethnic-racial identity development as a means to foster positive outgroup and diversity attitudes, little is known about its effectiveness in rapidly diversifying contexts such as Sweden. This pre-registered study filled this gap by examining if adolescents taking part in an intervention focused on ethnic-racial identity exploration, the Identity Project, also reported change in outgroup and diversity attitudes, and whether migration background, education type, and ethnic-racial identity development predicted such change. Twenty-three tenth-grade classes in Sweden (N = 509; Mage = 16.28; SDage = 0.80; 66% female; 51% migration background) participated in the intervention and were assessed in four waves over a period of 26 weeks. Whereas ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution increased for the intervention group, the adolescents reported no change in outgroup and diversity attitudes when compared to a control group. Increases in ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution co-varied with increases in attitudes, but only at Time 3. The results do not provide support for the link between ethnic-racial identity development and positive outgroup and diversity attitudes, and challenge the notion of attitude change as a cascading effect of the Identity Project intervention in non-US sociocultural contexts. All aspects of the study were pre-registered on the Open Science Framework platform ( https//osf.io/f5896 ).
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Social Identification
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Attitude
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Ethnicity
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Cultural Diversity
Limits:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
J Youth Adolesc
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J. youth adolesc
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Journal of youth and adolescence
Year:
2024
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Sweden