Gödecke, Marieke (2022) Underlying Mechanisms of the Education Bias. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Education-based prejudices are widely present in today’s society. However, at the same time, extensive knowledge about deeper workings and potential ways to reduce these prejudices is lacking. This makes acquiring such knowledge highly relevant. The present study aimed at getting a deeper understanding of mechanisms to explain the occurrence of the education bias. Based on previous research, cultural preferences, political threat beliefs, and contact diversity were analyzed. Using an online questionnaire, we took responses of N = 229 high educated individuals. Participants were asked to evaluate 4 profiles, characterized as either high- or low-educated, combined with either highbrow or lowbrow preferences. Moreover, self-report measures were used to assess network diversity, attitudes towards the less educated, cultural preferences, and political threat beliefs. We found supporting evidence of the education bias. Additionally, this research revealed that individuals with low threat beliefs or high network diversity showed less education bias than individuals with high threat beliefs or low network diversity. Thus, the factors political threat perception and likewise network diversity were both identified as influencing factors on education bias. Moreover, the results of network diversity add valuable insight for possible interventions, aiming at fighting educationism.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kuppens, T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2022 12:11 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2022 12:11 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/92 |
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