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Prejudice and peace: Is the Swedish youth neutral in its attitudes?
Author(s) -
KLOEP MARION
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1991.tb00850.x
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , soviet union , psychology , semantic differential , adversary , social psychology , political science , law , statistics , mathematics , politics
Two hundred and sixty Swedish students attending grade 9 were given a semantic differential to measure their attitudes towards four countries, Sweden, West Germany, USA, and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union received significantly more unfavourable ratings on nearly all variables than the other countries, which received mainly favourable or neutral ones. Most interesting, the Soviet Union is rated as “enemy”, whilst the other countries are rated as “friends”. Implications for peace education are discussed.