Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: 0000-0002-2383-9197 , Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Vezzali, Loris, Turner, Rhiannon N., Crisp, Richard J. and Martin, Robin (2024) How personality and dispositional empathy predict contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. ISSN 0147-1767 (Print), 1873-7552 (Online) (In Press)

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Abstract

While the prejudice-reduction effect of intergroup contact has been extensively demonstrated, research identifying antecedents of positive contact and underlying mechanisms is limited. Two studies, in Italy (N = 239 Italian adolescents) and the UK (N = 299 White British adults), examined dispositional empathy and personality traits as predictors of contact quality, with effort towards contact and contact self-efficacy as underlying mechanisms. Study 1 revealed that empathic concern and extraversion was associated with higher contact quality with immigrants in Italy via greater contact effort. Study 2 replicated and extended these findings, showing that contact self-efficacy and then contact effort sequentially mediated the associations of empathic concern and personality (extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness) with contact quality with Asian British in the UK. Perspective-taking was not associated with contact quality. Our findings highlight the value of integrating dispositional/personality, social cognitive and intergroup approaches in the study of antecedents of contact quality and underlying mechanisms, with implications for the design of prejudice-interventions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	empathy; extraversion; openness to experience; agreeableness; intergroup contact
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
Last Modified:	20 May 2024 15:02
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47161

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