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Cross‐group friendships and psychological well‐being: A dual pathway through social integration and empowerment

Sabahat Çiğdem Bağci, Abbas Türnüklü, Eyup Bekmezci

British Journal of Social Psychology · 2018

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Summary

This study investigated the associations between cross-group friendships and psychological well-being among a sample of physically disabled adults. A total of 269 disabled people (M<sub>age</sub> = 39.13, SD = 13.80; 114 females, 152 males, 3 unknown) completed questionnaires including the quality of their friendships with non-disabled people, perceived majority group's attitudes towards the minority group, collective self-esteem, collective action tendencies, own outgroup attitudes, and psychological well-being. Findings demonstrated that disabled people's cross-group friendships were directly and indirectly associated with higher levels of psychological well-being via two routes: one by promoting perceived majority attitudes which consequently led to more positive own outgroup attitudes

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1111/bjso.12267
Catalogue ID
SNmoh9mq15-1szswz
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