Ethnic Minority Contact and the Similarities between Adolescent-Reported Parental and Self-Reported Far Right-Wing Attitudes.
Recent developments in society, together with an increase in the number of far-right motivated crimes in Germany, suggest that far right-wing attitudes are becoming increasingly popular within public opinion. Since political attitudes are shaped within the family and peer setting during the adolesce...
| Published in: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 1466 - 1483 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=177371181&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 177371181 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10621024 JFM jtl: Journal of Child & Family Studies issn: 10621024 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2024 vid: 33 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 177371181 10.1007/s10826-023-02755-1 ppf: 1466 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 841KB tig: atl: Ethnic Minority Contact and the Similarities between Adolescent-Reported Parental and Self-Reported Far Right-Wing Attitudes. aug: au: Haselbach, Solveig Beckmann, Laura Kliem, Sören Krieg, Yvonne affil: https://ror.org/00ks66431 Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, University Campus, Guildford, GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK https://ror.org/04mz5ra38 Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Duisberg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057, Duisburg, Germany https://ror.org/01rfnc002 Department of Social Care, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena, Carl-Zeiß-Promenade 2, 07745, Jena, Germany https://ror.org/04kthgc59 Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Lützerodestraße 9, 30161, Hannover, Germany su: Germany Self-evaluation Parenting Parent attitudes Teenagers' conduct of life Social context Minorities Practical politics Psychology of parents Friendship Research funding Descriptive statistics Surveys Regression analysis sug: subj: Self-evaluation Parenting Parent attitudes Teenagers' conduct of life Social context Minorities Practical politics Psychology of parents Friendship Germany Research funding Descriptive statistics Surveys Regression analysis keyword: Contact hypothesis. Far right-wing attitudes Parent-adolescent similarity Contact hypothesis. Far right-wing attitudes Parent-adolescent similarity ab: Recent developments in society, together with an increase in the number of far-right motivated crimes in Germany, suggest that far right-wing attitudes are becoming increasingly popular within public opinion. Since political attitudes are shaped within the family and peer setting during the adolescent stage, assessing the potential interplay of family and peer relationships with regard to such attitudes appears essential. The present study aims to explore (1) the relationship between perceived parental far right-wing attitudes, as reported by adolescents, and adolescents' self-reported far right-wing attitudes, as well as (2) the unique and moderating effects of variables related to the contact hypothesis (ethnic minority friends and exposure to ethnic minority group members in the social environment). Using data from a representative school survey of seventh and ninth grade German adolescents, multilevel linear regression models indicated a statistically significant positive association between adolescent-reported parental far right-wing attitudes and adolescents' far right-wing attitudes. Furthermore, the analyses demonstrated a small but statistically significant moderating effect of friendship with individuals of an ethnic minority: the relationship between parental and adolescent far right-wing attitudes was weaker for adolescents who had more ethnic minority friends. Thus, adolescents who were friends with individuals of an ethnic minority appeared to be less congruent with their parents' far right-wing attitudes, compared to adolescents without any ethnic minority friends. In contrast, the overall level of exposure to ethnic minority group members in the social environment did not affect the strength of the relationship between perceived parental and adolescent far right-wing attitudes. Highlights: Parent-adolescent similarity of far right-wing attitudes and effects of ethnic minority contact among German adolescents. We found a significant positive association between adolescent-reported parental and adolescents' far right-wing attitudes. Results show a unique moderating effect of intergroup friendship on parent-adolescent similarity of far right-wing attitudes. Recommendations include the development of further educational initiatives that target the facilitation of intergroup friendship. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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