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Characteristics Associated with Racial Prejudice in Adolescent Boys
Author(s) -
HEBRON M. E.,
RIDLEY F.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1965.tb00445.x
Subject(s) - psychology , prejudice (legal term) , social psychology , anxiety , self esteem , developmental psychology , variance (accounting) , accounting , psychiatry , business
A criterion analysis was carried out on scores relating to socially desirable behaviour, which were obtained from adolescent boys of above average intelligence, selected from the extremes of a distribution for racial prejudice. The variables included self‐esteem, esteem for others, anxiety, a lie score, and finally a test of controlled projection yielding estimates of punitive and conventional attitudes. The results suggest that self‐esteem, conventional stereotypes and anxiety, each contribute to the variance of the prejudice scores, but that the second and third of these may be responsible for the rigidity factor. An unrealistic self‐image regarding socially appropriate behaviour appears to increase the tendency to make prejudiced judgments concerning similar traits in other nationalities.