Hargie, Owen, Dickson, David and Rainey, Seanenne (2002) Religious difference, inter-group trust, attraction, and disclosure amongst young people in Northern Ireland. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 10 . pp. 213-235. [Journal article]
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This study examines the extent and pattern of out-group contact amongst a cohort of Catholic and Protestant first year university students in Northern Ireland (N.I.). Attitudes towards mixing with members of the out-group were also considered, together with a complex of constructs identified in the literature as being central to friendship development. These included group identification, self-disclosure, out-group attraction, and trust. Gender differences were also taken into account. Results revealed significant differences between religious groups and between genders. Catholics displayed a greater inclination to disclose to a friend of the same religion (p<.05). They also recorded a stronger feeling of group identification than their out-group counterparts (p<.01). Females, compared with males, reported higher levels of out-group trust (p<.05), a greater willingness to self-disclose to a friend of both the same (p<.05) and other religion (p<.001) and “to others” collectively (p<.05) together with higher levels of social attraction towards the out-group (p<.05). Both males and females preferred disclosing to a friend than a stranger (p<.001). Criticism of Social Identity Theory and the Contact Hypothesis as incomplete explanations for inter-group relations are discussed. The contribution of relational dimensions to an understanding of the association of Catholics and Protestants in N.I. is explored.
|Item Type:||Journal article|
|Faculties and Schools:||Faculty of Social Sciences|
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Communication
|Research Institutes and Groups:||Institute for Research in Social Sciences > Communication|
Psychology Research Institute > Peace, Conflict & Equality
Institute for Research in Social Sciences
|Deposited By:||Professor Owen Hargie|
|Deposited On:||19 Jan 2010 10:58|
|Last Modified:||15 Jun 2011 09:56|
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