It is important to explore prejudice to understand and learn how to decrease it.
There is a central belief that “personal knowledge reduces prejudice.” Does a person
who has personal knowledge of prejudice, for example, those of minority status have
less prejudice towards others? There has been considerable research on the prejudice that
the majority might feel towards minorities but there is limited research on minorities’
prejudice towards others. The current study focuses on the relationship between a person
of self-perceived minority statuses and her or his feelings of prejudice towards others
(e.g. minorities and mainstream).
Previous research had found a positive correlation between fundamentalism and
prejudice. This study investigated that relationship and a positive correlation was found.
Another aspect that has been studied in previous research, dealing with prejudice and
self reports, is social desirability. This study investigated the relationship between social
desirability and multiple minority statuses and no statistical significance was found. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was utilized to investigate the relationship
between multiple minority statuses and prejudice. The analysis showed no statistical
significance on the relationship between multiple minority statuses and prejudice.
There is still a lot about prejudice that remains unknown. This area of research
should be investigated further to better understand minority prejudice, which in turn
might lead us to overcome its negative effects.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1909 |
| Date | 02 June 2009 |
| Creators | Veve, Mia |
| Contributors | Davenport, Donna |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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