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Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating

Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating. Michela Jones Karla Roberts Hanover College. Introduction. Would you date someone of another race? Increase in interracial relationships Recent political advertisement. Race. (Yancey, 2002) European-Americans – are least likely

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Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating

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  1. Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating Michela Jones Karla Roberts Hanover College

  2. Introduction • Would you date someone of another race? • Increase in interracial relationships • Recent political advertisement

  3. Race (Yancey, 2002) • European-Americans – are least likely • Asian-Americans – most likely to interracially date (Knox, Zusman, Buffington, & Hemphill, 2000) • Blacks twice as likely to interracially date compared to Whites

  4. Proximity, Gender, and Religion (Yancey, 2002) • Proximity to other races - number one predictor • Religion • Catholics • Gender

  5. Our Study • Inconsistency between personal and general attitudes • Social Distance Theory

  6. Our Study • Social Distance Scale • Close Kin • Exclude from country • Hypothesis • The difference between one person being personally receptive toward black-white dating and another person not being receptive of black-white dating is their attitudes towards African-Americans.

  7. Participants • 186 Respondents • Only used 144 • 75% female • 9% Black, 91% White

  8. Methods • Online Questionnaire • Four measures • Personal Preferences • General Attitudes • Modern Racism Scale • Social Distance Scale • Demographics • Gender • Religion • Race • Age • School • Hometown and State

  9. Personal Preferences • PLEASE RATE HOW ATTRACTIVE YOU MIGHT FIND SOMEONE WITH THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS. • Is African American

  10. General Attitudes • ACCORDING TO YOUR BELIEFS ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG, HOW SHOULD SOCIETY RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING EVENTS? • A White woman dates a Black man • A Black woman dates a White man

  11. Modern Racism Scale • INDICATE HOW MUCH YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS: • Over the past few years blacks have gotten more economically than they deserve. • Blacks are getting too demanding in their push for equal rights. • It is easy to understand the anger of black people in America. (reversed scored) • (McConohay, 1986)

  12. Social Distance Scale • ACCORDING TO YOUR FIRST REACTION, PLEASE INDICATE WHERE YOU WOULD WILLINGLY ADMIT MEMBERS OF EACH RACE (AS A GROUP, AND NOT BASED ON INDIVIDUALS) • PLEASE INDICATE THE LOWEST NUMBER THAT APPLIES • (Bogardus, 1925)

  13. Social Distance Scale

  14. Results • Social Distance Measure • Partial Correlation • r(139) = -0.34 • Modern Racism Scale Measure • Partial Correlation • r (141) = -0.27

  15. Conclusion • Hypothesis was supported. • The difference between one person being personally receptive toward black-white dating and another person not being receptive of black-white dating is their attitudes towards African-Americans.

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