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Exploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships
Author(s) -
Bonam Courtney M.,
Shih Margaret
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01589.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , psychology , construct (python library) , white (mutation) , social psychology , racial differences , social relationship , ethnic group , sociology , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , computer science , gene , programming language , anthropology
This article explores the relationship between a heightened awareness of race as a social construct and comfort in interracial relationships across varying levels of intimacy among multiracial and monoracial individuals. Study 1 finds that multiracial individuals express higher levels of comfort in intimate interracial relationships than monoracial White and minority individuals. Study 2 finds that belief in race as a social construction mediates the differences between monoracial and multiracial individuals in their comfort in intimate interracial relationships. Implications of these findings for interracial relationships are discussed.