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  title info:
    title: Why can't we all be friends? Do friendships influence a person's perception of racial teasing?
  name:
    name part: Gonzalez, Lorena L.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Conoley, Collie
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Castillo, Linda
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore how having Mexican American friends influences a person?s perception to racial/ethnic (Mexican American) specific teasing. This study sought to extend the research on friendships and prejudice by investigating how friendship influences a person rating of ethnic specific teasing. This study is significant because promoting interracial friendships could be an avenue to alleviate some of the negative effects of racial teasing. Moreover, it may help facilitate and create a more comfortable social environment that might help ethnic minorities in school. Participants were asked to rate vignettes, including characters that were identified as Mexican American, which contained racial/ethnic specific teasing. They were asked to rate the vignettes according to adjectives that were either positive or negative, such as: humorous, friendly, mean, and cruel. Additionally, measures of empathy, social desirability, prejudice, and white racial consciousness were administered. Participants were asked to think of a Mexican American friend and complete a questionnaire, the Acquaintance Description Form F-2, as a way of measuring the intensity and closeness of this friendship. The major hypothesis was that participants who indicated a greater and more intense friendship with their Mexican American friend would rate the teasing as less positive and more disapproving. Analysis found that people have a more disapproving attitude toward teasing to the extent that they have, respectively, at least one Mexican American friend or a higher level of exposure to African Americans. Statuses of white racial consciousness were also found to be strong predictors for how participants rated vignettes. Findings somewhat supported both the Extended Contact Theory and the Intergroup Contact Theory, adding to the literature that finds when groups spend not only time together but quality time together benefits can be expected. Some of these benefits may help to reduce…
  note: by Lorena L. Gonzalez.
  note: "Major Subject: Counseling Psychology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-314
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major counseling psychology
  subject:
    topic: Bullying
  subject:
    topic: friendship
  subject:
    topic: racial teasing
  subject:
    topic: teasing
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-314
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100429
    record change date: 20151201150211.0
    record identifier: in00002569354