Cada Karel, Gheorghiev Olga
Department of Managerial Psychology and Sociology, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czechia.
Front Psychol. 2023 Aug 2;14:1124781. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124781. eCollection 2023.
The over-representation of Roma children in segregated schools is well documented as a prevalent form of institutional racism in the Czech Republic. In the paper, we examine the inclination of parents to support school segregation.
The paper looks at parents' preference for school segregation and explores its association to social dominance orientation, intergroup contacts, belief in traditional schooling and the absence of Roma children in school as proof of the school's good quality. The first hypothesis examines an association between parents' preference to withdraw their children from ethnically diverse schools and social dominance orientation (one's degree of preference for inequality among social groups). The second one tests the belief in traditional schooling as a factor contributing to a preference for ethnically motivated withdrawal. The third one studies the extent to which parents' preference to withdraw their children from ethnically diverse schools is affected by contact with Roma in their everyday life. The final hypothesis tests if parents who view Roma students as an indicator of poor education in a given school are more likely to oppose the presence of Roma students among their children's peers.
Quantitative data collection was carried out on a sample of 1,803 respondents. The target group were families with at least one child of primary school age (6-14 years). A binary logistic regression analysis was implemented to assess these relationships.
The study confirmed that ethnically motivated school withdrawal is associated with social dominance orientation, belief in traditional school culture and education. On the other hand, the role of inter-group contact in a school environment was not proved. However, the final statistical model was rather weak explaining approximately 9% of variance in segregation endorsement. The model fit improved significantly when an additional variable - absence of Roma as a sign of a good school - was added. Approximately 15% of the variance in segregation endorsement was explained by the modified set of predictors.
The study argues that ethnically motivated school withdrawal is a result of individual attitudes and situational factors. This means that researchers interested in informal school segregation will need to consider both groups of factors.
在捷克共和国，罗姆儿童在隔离学校中的比例过高，这已被充分记录为一种普遍存在的制度性种族主义形式。在本文中，我们研究了家长支持学校隔离的倾向。
本文考察了家长对学校隔离的偏好，并探讨了其与社会支配取向、群体间接触、对传统学校教育的信念以及学校中没有罗姆儿童作为学校质量良好的证据之间的关联。第一个假设检验家长将孩子从种族多样化学校撤出的偏好与社会支配取向（个人对社会群体间不平等的偏好程度）之间的关联。第二个假设检验对传统学校教育的信念作为导致出于种族动机撤出孩子的一个因素。第三个假设研究家长将孩子从种族多样化学校撤出的偏好受其日常生活中与罗姆人接触影响的程度。最后一个假设检验那些将罗姆学生视为某所学校教育质量差的指标的家长是否更有可能反对他们孩子的同龄人中有罗姆学生。
对1803名受访者进行了定量数据收集。目标群体是至少有一个小学年龄（6 - 14岁）孩子的家庭。采用二元逻辑回归分析来评估这些关系。
研究证实，出于种族动机的学校撤出与社会支配取向、对传统学校文化和教育的信念有关。另一方面，群体间接触在学校环境中的作用未得到证实。然而，最终的统计模型相当薄弱，只能解释约9%的隔离认可方差。当添加一个额外变量——没有罗姆人作为学校质量好的标志时，模型拟合度显著提高。修改后的预测变量集解释了约15%的隔离认可方差。
该研究认为，出于种族动机的学校撤出是个人态度和情境因素的结果。这意味着对非正式学校隔离感兴趣的研究人员需要考虑这两组因素。
