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- Title
SOME FACTORS AFFECTING ATTITUDE TOWARD JEWS.
- Abstract
The article focuses on factors that influence the attitude of non-Jewish college students toward Jews in the college. The factors selected for test include sex, age, religious affiliation, course of study, occupation and income of parents and intimacy of contact. An attitude test, meeting the conventional requirements for reliability and validity, was administered to 502 non-Jewish college and university students. Information on ten factors was obtained from each subject by means of a personal data schedule, and certain standard statistical operations were performed to measure the degree of association of each of these factors with the attitude measured by the test. There is strong evidence that the subjects who have had greatest opportunity for contact with Jewish students in the school situation tend to score consistently lower and indicate less favorable attitude. On the basis of data offered, it can be concluded that quality of the contact between Jews and non-Jews is highly important in conditioning the inter-group attitude. Mere frequency of contact does not make for a reduction of prejudice but if the contacts are intimate and personal the attitude is likely to be favorable.
- Subjects
COLLEGE student attitudes; JEWISH children; JEWISH college students; INTERGROUP relations; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; PSYCHOLOGY of college students
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1942, Vol 7, Issue 6, p816
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2085406