Park, Sooju (2022) The Relation Between Empathy and Contact Intentions: The Role of Group-based Guilt. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Many international students face discrimination in the housing market in the Netherlands because they are not Dutch. Aiming to resolve intergroup conflict, we examined how we can increase the awareness of misconduct of the perpetrator group and in order to increase contact with the victimized group. Previous research has found that empathy has been associated with group-based guilt to resolve intergroup conflict and facilitate intergroup reconciliation. Our research is a replication study based on a study by Febriana (2022) and Krützkamp (2022) using a different context. We examined whether inducing empathy among Dutch students with international students predicts intention to have contact and whether group-based guilt mediates this relationship. Using an experimental survey, Dutch participants (N = 77) were randomly assigned to either an empathic or objective condition in order to manipulate empathy. However, this empathy manipulation did not work effectively. Instead, we explored the relationship between measured empathy with contact intention and group-based guilt. We found that when Dutch students empathize with international students, they were also more likely to feel guilty on behalf of other Dutch students. Further, Dutch students who were more likely to empathize with international students were more willing to have contact with international students. However, there was no significant relation between group-based guilt and contact intentions. The current study replicated the previous studies by finding a relation between empathy and group-based guilt. Future research should further try to manipulate empathy in order to examine causal relationships between these variables.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Gordijn, E.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2022 13:29 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2022 13:29 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1326 |
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