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Revista de Psicología (PUCP)
On-line version ISSN 0254-9247
Abstract
MERA LEMP, María José et al. Attitude to multiculturality at school scale: validation and psychometric properties on a Chilean sample. Revista de Psicología [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.1, pp.115-136. ISSN 0254-9247. http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/psico.202101.005.
The increasing number of immigrant students on the Chilean educational system stresses the importance of study teachers’ attitudes to multiculturality in schools settings. Nevertheless, there is a lack of adequate measurement instruments to apply on Chilean population. The aim of this work was to validate the Attitude to Multiculturality at School Scale (León del Barco et al., 2007) on a Chilean sample, composed by N=160 teachers. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the unifactorial model had the best fit to the data. Correlation analysis revealed significant relations between attitude to multiculturality at school, perceived out-group threat and prejudice. Linear regression analysis showed that perceived threat and prejudice explained 42% of the attitude to multiculturality at school variability, supporting criterion validity.
Keywords : attitudes; multiculturality; school; immigrants; teachers.