Acceptance of Ethnic Groups and Perceived Attitudes of Parents and Peers

Abstract

To assess the relationship between prejudicial attitudes and perceptions of parents' and peers' attitudes (two aspects of the subjective norm) responses of 959 volunteer subjects were examined. Analysis indicated that subjects with the least prejudicial attitudes perceived their parents and peers as significantly less prejudicial than those subjects who were the most prejudicial in their own attitudes, but over-all, scores on the measure of prejudicial attitudes were only weakly correlated with perceptions of parents' and peers' attitudes.