Building Social Cohesion Through Intergroup Contact: Evaluation of a Large-Scale Intervention to Improve Intergroup Relations Among Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Past research has found intergroup contact to be a promising intervention to reduce prejudice and has identified adolescence as the developmental period during which intergroup contact is most effective. Few studies, however, have tested whether contact-based interventions can be scaled up to improve intergroup relations at a large scale. The present research evaluated whether and when the National Citizen Service, a large-scale contact-based intervention reaching one in six 15- to 17-year-olds in England and Northern Ireland, builds social cohesion among adolescents from different ethnic backgrounds. In a diverse sample of adolescents (N = 2099; M_age = 16.37, age range: 15-17 years; 58% female), this study used a pretest-posttest design with a double pretest to assess the inter

SUBMITTER: Reimer NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8116240 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature