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Secondary School Students’ Attitudes towards National Minorities: The Role of Intergroup Contact and School Characteristics

By now, many studies have confirmed the validity of the contact hypothesis, according to which people tend to exhibit less prejudice towards the members of out-group they spend time with. However, not many studies investigated the relative predictive importance of contact in explaining young people generalized and specific prejudice, as well as the role of contextual school -level factors. This study: (1) tested the significance of contribution of contact to the explanation of secondary students’ generalized and specific prejudices towards different minority groups in Croatia and (2) tested the differences in predictiveness of contact in the context of specific school -level characteristics potentially relevant for intergroup relations (e.g. proportion of students of different nationality, intercultural/civic education). The study is based on Croatian data set - online survey of approximately 2, 000 secondary school students from around thirty Croatian secondary schools stratified according to the level of urbanization and school type. Data were analyzed using the multi-level modelling and interpreted in the context of importance of individual level and school level socialization factors for understanding young people intergroup attitudes.

contact, prejudice, high-school students, generalized, specific

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