Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating

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Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating

• Michela Jones
• Karla Roberts
• Hanover College

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Introduction

• Would you date someone of another race?
• Increase in interracial relationships
• Recent political advertisement

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Race

• (Yancey, 2002)
• European-Americans are least likely
• Asian-Americans most likely to interracially
  date
• (Knox, Zusman, Buffington, Hemphill, 2000)
• Blacks twice as likely to interracially date
  compared to Whites

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Proximity, Gender, and Religion

• (Yancey, 2002)
• Proximity to other races - number one predictor
• Religion
• Catholics
• Gender

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Our Study

• Inconsistency between personal and general
  attitudes
• Social Distance Theory

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Our Study

• Social Distance Scale
• Close Kin
• Exclude from country
• Hypothesis
• The difference between one person being
  personally receptive toward black-white dating
  and another person not being receptive of
  black-white dating is their attitudes towards
  African-Americans.

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Participants

• 186 Respondents
• Only used 144
• 75 female
• 9 Black, 91 White

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Methods

• Online Questionnaire
• Four measures
• Personal Preferences
• General Attitudes
• Modern Racism Scale
• Social Distance Scale
• Demographics
• Gender
• Religion
• Race
• Age
• School
• Hometown and State

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Personal Preferences

• PLEASE RATE HOW ATTRACTIVE YOU MIGHT FIND SOMEONE
  WITH THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS.
• Is African American

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General Attitudes

• ACCORDING TO YOUR BELIEFS ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND
  WRONG, HOW SHOULD SOCIETY RESPOND TO THE
  FOLLOWING EVENTS?
• A White woman dates a Black man
• A Black woman dates a White man

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Modern Racism Scale

• INDICATE HOW MUCH YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE
  FOLLOWING STATEMENTS
• Over the past few years blacks have gotten more
  economically than they deserve.
• Blacks are getting too demanding in their push
  for equal rights.
• It is easy to understand the anger of black
  people in America. (reversed scored)
• (McConohay, 1986)

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Social Distance Scale

• ACCORDING TO YOUR FIRST REACTION, PLEASE INDICATE
  WHERE YOU WOULD WILLINGLY ADMIT MEMBERS OF EACH
  RACE (AS A GROUP, AND NOT BASED ON INDIVIDUALS)
• PLEASE INDICATE THE LOWEST NUMBER THAT APPLIES
• (Bogardus, 1925)

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Social Distance Scale

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1. Would Marry 2. Would have as close friends 3. Would have as next door neighbors 4. Would work in same office 5. Have as speaking acquaintances only 6. Have as visitors only to my nation 7. Would bar from my nation
Caucasian 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
African American 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Hispanic 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Asian 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Results

• Social Distance Measure
• Partial Correlation
• r(139) -0.34
• Modern Racism Scale Measure
• Partial Correlation
• r (141) -0.27

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Conclusion

• Hypothesis was supported.
• The difference between one person being
  personally receptive toward black-white dating
  and another person not being receptive of
  black-white dating is their attitudes towards
  African-Americans.

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