Affective mediators of intergroup contact: a three-wave longitudinal study in South Africa.

Journal article

Intergroup contact (especially cross-group friendship) is firmly established as a powerful strategy for combating group-based prejudice (Pettigrew and Tropp, 2006). Great advances have been made in understanding how contact reduces prejudice (Brown and Hewstone, 2005), highlighting the importance of affective mediators (Pettigrew and Tropp, 2008). The present study, a 3-wave longitudinal study undertaken among minority-status Colored high school children in South Africa (N = 465), explored th...

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Authors: Swart, H; Hewstone, M; Christ, O; Voci, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of personality and social psychology
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1221-1238
• Publication date: 2011-12-01
• DOI: 10.1037/a0024450
• EISSN: 1939-1315
• ISSN: 0022-3514
• Language: English
• Keywords: Minority Groups; Social Identification; Interpersonal Relations; Anxiety; South Africa; Friends; Attitude; Prejudice; African Continental Ancestry Group; Humans; Affect; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; Male; Empathy; Group Processes; Adolescent; Longitudinal Studies