TITLE:
Prejudice as a Concurrent Stimulus for Violence: A Case of an Asian Community
AUTHORS:
Albert Fenteng
KEYWORDS:
Prejudice, Violence, Aggression, Negative Attitude
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.14 No.2,
February
14,
2023
ABSTRACT: Human nature and nurture were explored by Goffman and Allport in a different way by describing the human instinct and social learning to consider himself and the others as different, referring to prejudice. Different researchers extend this area or domain of research whereby aggression and violence were studied resulting from prejudice such as due to negative attitude. Prejudice is a source of many social problems including aggression and violence. Objectives: To know about prevalence and forms of prejudice, as general consequence, and its association with violence. Methodology: This study is framed under quantitative and cross-sectional design. Random and convenient sampling techniques were used whereby 390 parents were sampled. A questionnaire was constructed keeping in view Allport’s conceptualization of prejudice. SPSS has been used to analyze the data whereby descriptive and regression analysis are applied to test the hypothesis. Conclusion: Prejudice prevails in healthcare sector, educational institutes, employment sector; it is gendered and has sexual connotations in nature etc. Prejudice leads to individual level and social harm and mental illness. Regression analysis shows that prejudice is statistically significantly associated with violence with 6 hypotheses showing significance at p = .000.