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Intergroup contact in multiple adolescents’ contexts: The Intergroup Contact Interactions Scale (ICIS)

Savaş Karataş, Monica Rubini, Francesca Prati, Seth J. Schwartz, Elisabetta Crocetti

Frontiers in Psychology · 2023

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Summary

In the present contribution, we aimed to test the psychometric properties of the Intergroup Contact Interactions Scale (ICIS). The ICIS is a tool that can easily be administered to assess ethnic minority and majority adolescents' positive and negative intergroup contact in both school and out-of-school contexts. Study I included 169 adolescents in Italy (40.2% ethnic minority adolescents; 51.5% female; <i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 14.41) and provided initial support for the two-factor structure (i.e., positive and negative contact) of the ICIS in both school and out-of-school contexts. Study II, conducted with a sample of 1,037 adolescents in Italy (26.5% ethnic minority adolescents; 59.7% female; <i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 14.58), indicated that the fit of the two-factor ICIS structure was ex

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1066146
Catalogue ID
SNmoh9mq15-9r6id6
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