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Individual and class room predictors of
same-cultural friendship…
Individual and class room predictors of
same-cultural friendship preferences in
multicultural schools
2015
Sample
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non-immigrants (numerical minority), Turkisch and former Yugoslavian migrants in 1 and 2 generation
Theorie
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opportunity hypothesis, microstructural theory (how many people from the same group are avaliable)
Measures
Individual level variables: number of friends, same cultural friendship preferences, cultural pride, racist victimiyation
Class-level variables: cultural diversity, percentage of cultural groups, percentage of students with limited German lnguage proficiency, multi-cultural education, percentage of boys
Results
that both Turkish and former Yugoslavian
immigrant youths showed a higher preference for same-cultural friends compared with non-immigrant youths.
(acculturative function)
no differences regarding cultural pride were found in the three immigrant groups (expected that immigrants would have more CP, based on research of Verkuyten 2012)
non-immigrant students also reported the highest level of
racist victimization compared with Turkish and former Yugoslavian immigrant students in the present study.
(non-immigrant in minority)
Positive association between being 1 or 2 generation immigrant (1 generation - both yugoslavian and turkish, 2 generation - only yugoslavian) and friendship homophilie. 2 generation is still perceived as immigrant
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the preference for same-cultural friends was
higher in more culturally diverse classes. contradict this ‘availability’ hypothesis, pointing to some other psychological mechanisms such as, for instance, a need for same-cultural affiliation
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