Are Value Priorities Predictors of Prejudice? A Study With Italian Adolescents | Zendy

Rossella Falanga | Zendy; Maria Elvira De Caroli | Zendy; Elisabetta Sagone | Zendy

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Are Value Priorities Predictors of Prejudice? A Study With Italian Adolescents

Author(s) -

Rossella Falanga,

Maria Elvira De Caroli,

Elisabetta Sagone

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

procedia - social and behavioral sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1877-0428

DOI - 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.250

Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , openness to experience , psychology , value (mathematics) , social psychology , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , geography , cartography , machine learning , computer science

This study explored value priorities, prejudice toward the Africans, and the relationships between these dimensions in 233 Italian adolescents. Measures: Portrait Values Questionnaire (Capanna et al., 2005), to assess value priorities, and Subtle and Blatant Prejudice Scale (Manganelli Rattazzi & Volpato, 2001) to distinguish subjects in: Equalitarians, Bigots, and Subtles.Results1) adolescents scored higher in self-transcendence and openness to change than conservation and self-enhancement; 2) the 51,5% of adolescents were classified as Equalitarians, the 41,6% as Subtles, and the 6,9% as Bigots; 3) Equalitarians scored higher than the others in self-transcendence, while Bigots and Subtles scored higher in self-enhancement than Equalitarians; 4) self-transcendence negatively affected prejudice, conservation and self-enhancement were predictors of prejudice. Differences for sex and age emerged

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