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

ABSTRACT: 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; M _age = 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; M _age = 14.58), indicated that the fit of the two-factor ICIS structure was ex

SUBMITTER: Karatas S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9875736 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature