@article{ref1,
title="Ethnic-racial identity and attitude change: assessments of outgroup and diversity attitudes among adolescents in Sweden",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2024",
author="Syed, Moin and Hwang, C. Philip and Juang, Linda P. and Frisén, Ann and Sandberg, David J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Outgroup and diversity attitudes are important components of intercultural understanding and well-being. Despite the potential of ethnic-racial identity development as a means to foster positive outgroup and diversity attitudes, little is known about its effectiveness in rapidly diversifying contexts such as Sweden. This pre-registered study filled this gap by examining if adolescents taking part in an intervention focused on ethnic-racial identity exploration, the Identity Project, also reported change in outgroup and diversity attitudes, and whether migration background, education type, and ethnic-racial identity development predicted such change. Twenty-three tenth-grade classes in Sweden (N = 509; M(age) = 16.28; SD(age) = 0.80; 66% female; 51% migration background) participated in the intervention and were assessed in four waves over a period of 26 weeks. Whereas ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution increased for the intervention group, the adolescents reported no change in outgroup and diversity attitudes when compared to a control group. Increases in ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution co-varied with increases in attitudes, but only at Time 3. The results do not provide support for the link between ethnic-racial identity development and positive outgroup and diversity attitudes, and challenge the notion of attitude change as a cascading effect of the Identity Project intervention in non-US sociocultural contexts. All aspects of the study were pre-registered on the Open Science Framework platform ( https://osf.io/f5896 ).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-024-02024-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02024-4"
}