Randomised Controlled Trial of Online Empathy Focused Intercultural Communication Program for Turkish Local Society to Increase Their Social Acceptance Towards Refugees

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作者

Arzu Çalışkan Sarı¹ , Özden Yalçınkaya Alkar²

1. Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi
2. Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi

会议/活动

Karatekin University Psychology Department, January 2022 (虚拟会议)

海报摘要

The current study investigated the efectiveness of an online-based, empathy-focused intervention program that is developed for Turkish local society to increase their positive attitudes towards refugees. The sample of the four-week intervention program consisted of 52 participants that were randomly assigned to experimental (n=26) and control groups (n=26). Participants completed the Attitudes towards Syrians Scale in both groups before and after the intervention program. In the control group, no implementation was provided, only the individuals flled the pre-test and post-test questionnaires within the same periods as the experimental group. Participants in the experimental group also flled a sentence completion activity at the end of the program. The results of the study showed that Empathy Focused Intercultural Communication Program for Turkish Local Society showed a positive promissory approach for increasing positive attitudes towards Syrian refugees, increasing emphatic and altruistic approach. Lastly, these results, limitations, and suggestions for future research were discussed and the possible implications were shared.

关键词

Intervention for prejiduce reduction, Attitudes towards Syrians, Empathy, Intercultural communication

研究领域

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ethnic and Cultural Studies

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附加信息

利益冲突

None declared.

数据可用性声明

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available via the provided link.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SKL4DOizwC7hnLrUc8Xo35zsLUc1pZIs

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Copyright © 2022 Çalışkan Sarı et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.