title: Friendship preferences among German and Turkish preadolescents.
abstract: This study examined changes in and predictors of preference for same-ethnic friendships among German (N=106) and Turkish (N=45) preadolescents (M age=10.4 years) during their 1st year in an ethnically heterogeneous school. Drawing on the contact hypothesis, it examined the relation between children's attitudes and their preference for same-ethnic friendship. Among both German and Turkish children, the latter decreased over time and its variability was predicted by intergroup attitudes and peer norms about cross-ethnic friendships. Outgroup orientation and perceived contact conditions predicted only German children's preference for same-ethnic friendships. Over time, classroom identification increasingly reduced preference for same-ethnic friendships among Turkish children. The results showed that interindividual attitudes were related to children's level of intergroup contact.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstrasse 27, Jena, Germany. philipp.jugert@uni-jena.de
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jugert
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Noack
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rutland
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002755:Choice Behavior; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012929:Psychological Distance; D012933:Social Identification; D012944:Social Support; D012945:Social Values; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology