Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2023 Oct;49(10):1466-1478. doi: 10.1177/01461672221110325. Epub 2022 Jul 20.
Despite increasing contact opportunities, prejudice toward refugees persists, especially in mass immigration contexts. We investigated changes in and associations between Turkish early adolescents' ( = 687, = 11.11 years) positive and negative contact with Syrian refugees and their outgroup approach-avoidance tendencies over 15 months (three waves). Univariate growth curve models demonstrated a rise in outgroup negativity indicated by increasing negative contact and avoidance tendencies, and decreasing approach tendencies, while positive contact only slightly increased over time (nonsignificantly). Combined latent growth curve models showed that increasing positive contact buffered against increasing outgroup negativity in behavioral tendencies by predicting a less steep decline in approach and a less steep increase in avoidance. Increasing negative contact was positively associated with increasing outgroup negativity so that it predicted a more steep increase in avoidance. Findings underline the importance of early contact interventions that target the fast deterioration of positive intergroup interactions in increasingly hostile intergroup contexts.
尽管接触机会不断增加，但对难民的偏见仍然存在，尤其是在大规模移民的背景下。我们调查了在 15 个月（三个阶段）的时间里，土耳其青少年（n=687，年龄=11.11 岁）与叙利亚难民的积极和消极接触，以及他们对外群体的接近-回避倾向的变化和关联。单变量增长曲线模型显示，对外群体的消极性上升，表现为消极接触和回避倾向的增加，以及接近倾向的减少，而积极接触只是随着时间的推移略有增加（无统计学意义）。综合潜在增长曲线模型表明，积极接触的增加可以缓冲行为倾向中对外群体消极性的增加，因为它预示着接近倾向的下降和回避倾向的上升幅度较小。消极接触的增加与对外群体消极性的增加呈正相关，因此它预示着回避倾向的上升幅度更大。研究结果强调了早期接触干预的重要性，这些干预旨在针对在日益敌对的群体环境中，积极的群体间互动迅速恶化的情况。
