Building Social Cohesion Through Intergroup Contact: Evaluation of a Large-Scale Intervention to Improve Intergroup Relations Among Adolescents

Journal article

Discrimination is widespread and often goes unchallenged because bystanders do not recognize the need to intervene or do not know how to intervene. This field experiment with adolescents (N = 639) tested a group discussion designed to increase perceived importance and self-efficacy around challenging general discrimination. The intervention, which involved perspective-taking and action-planning, was tested with delayed measures against active control conditions, namely sessions on self-disclosure and civic engagement. It led to greater self-efficacy, particularly among White participants

Authors: Reimer, NK; Love, A; Wölfer, R; Hewstone, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Journal: Journal of Youth and Adolescence
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1049-1067
• Publication date: 2021-02-18
• DOI: 10.1007/s10964-021-01400-8
• EISSN: 1573-6601
• ISSN: 0047-2891
• Language: English
• Keywords: Public health; Intervention (counseling); Psychological intervention; Scale (ratio); Prejudice (legal term); Health psychology; Developmental psychology; Outgroup; Medicine; Psychology; Psychiatry; Clinical psychology; Social psychology; Ethnic group