Attitudes of Whites Toward Blacks: A Revision of the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS).

Autor/inn/en	Minatoya, Lydia Y.; Sedlacek, William E.
Institution	Maryland Univ., College Park. Counseling Center.
Titel	Attitudes of Whites Toward Blacks: A Revision of the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS).
Quelle	(1979), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Attitude Measures; Blacks; College Freshmen; Higher Education; Institutional Research; Racial Attitudes; Racial Discrimination; State Universities; Student Attitudes; Whites + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Black person; Schwarzer; Studienanfänger; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Institutionelle Forschung; Rassenfrage; Racial bias; Rassismus; Staatliche Universität; Schülerverhalten; White; Weißer
Abstract	A revised form of the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS), the SAS A-14 and SAS B-14, was used to measure the attitudes of 259 incoming white freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park. The results indicated that the revised form elicited responses that paralleled those reported for the standard SAS. Principal components factor analyses, using squared multiple correlations as commonality estimates, were conducted on the combined A and B forms. The factor configurations suggested that students responded to the items in each situation as a unit. The first 10 factors extracted appeared to represent each of the 10 situations. (The situations include: new family in your apartment complex, personnel office announces promotion preferences, children bused to school, union adds new apprentices, best friend engaged, stopped by policeman, neighbor joins swimming pool association, medical school admission slots, neighborhood changes, and financial aid office reserves jobs.) White students tended to react with more negative feelings when situations involved proximity, interaction, or competition with blacks than when race was not specified. All 10 items referring to a situation involving preference in promotions received a more negative response when preference was given to black employees than when the employees' races were unspecified. As in previous SAS administrations, the situation that portrayed an engagement of a best friend (white with black) also elicited highly significant differences by form. Instructions and situations from the revised SAS (SAS-14) are appended. (Author/LB)
Anmerkungen	University of Maryland, Office of Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Counseling Center, College Park, MD 20742 ($1.50).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC