Management Summary Research Study „Social Dominance Orientation, Intergroup Contact and Belief in Traditional School Culture as Predictors for Parents’ Attitudes to School Segregation in the Czech Republic“

The paper looks at parents’ preference for school segregation and explores its association to social dominance orientation, intergroup contacts, belief in traditional schooling and the absence of Roma children in school as proof of the school’s good quality. Quantitative data collection was carried out on a sample of 1,803 respondents. The target group were families with at least one child of primary school age (6–14 years). A binary logistic regression analysis was implemented to assess these relationships. The study confirmed that ethnically motivated school withdrawal is associated with social dominance orientation, belief in traditional school culture and education. On the other hand, the role of inter-group contact in a school environment was not proved. However, the final statistical model was rather weak explaining approximately 9% of variance in segregation endorsement. The model fit improved significantly when an additional variable – absence of Roma as a sign of a good school – was added. Approximately 15% of the variance in segregation endorsement was explained by the modified set of predictors. The study argues that ethnically motivated school withdrawal is a result of individual attitudes and situational factors. This means that researchers interested in informal school segregation will need to consider both groups of factors.

Target groups of stakeholders:psychologists, sociologists, teachers and CSOs representatives

Citation: Cada, K., & Gheorghiev, O. (2023). Social dominance orientation, intergroup contact and belief in traditional school culture as predictors for parents’ attitudes to school segregation in the Czech Republic. Frontiers in Psychology, 14: 1-9.

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124781/full