Inclusion of refugee peers. Differences between own preferences and expectations of the peer group

Abstract: Given the high numbers of refugees from Syria entering Germany in the recent years, the social integration of refugee youth has become an increasingly important issue in Germany. Thus, the current study examines adolescents’ decisions and reasoning around the inclusion of Syrian peers in Germany. Given the importance of group norms for adolescents, we assessed not only adolescents’ own inclusion decisions, but also what they would expect their peer group to decide and what they think their peer group should do. Moreover, adolescents’ underlying reasoning was assessed. The analyses revealed that adolescents thought they would be more inclusive of a Syrian peer than a German peer and that their peer group should be more inclusive of a Syrian peer than a German peer. These tendencies toward including refugees were justified with references to morality as well as social-conventions. In contrast to their own decisions and to what they think their peer group should, participants ...

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
In: Frontiers in psychology 13 (2022) 855171
ISSN: 1664-1078
(DE-600)2563826-9

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Veröffentlichung
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Frankfurt
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DIPF Frankfurt am Main, NP-Ablieferer
(wann)
2022
Urheber
Beißert, Hanna
Mulvey, Kelly Lynn

DOI
10.25656/01:26345
URN
urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-263450
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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