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When cross‐ethnic friendships can be bad for out‐group attitudes: The importance of friendship quality
Author(s) -
Cernat Vasile
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/casp.2385
Subject(s) - friendship , ethnic group , social psychology , psychology , quality (philosophy) , romanian , group (periodic table) , sociology , anthropology , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , chemistry , organic chemistry
Data collected from Romanian students living in the Transylvanian region of Romania showed that the quality of friendship with Hungarian ethnics moderated the effects of cross‐ethnic friendship quantity on attitudes towards this out‐group. Although high‐quality cross‐ethnic friendships were very beneficial to out‐group attitudes, low‐quality cross‐ethnic friendships were rather harmful.