Value-driven attitude surveys: Lessons from the refugee crisis in Greece.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Published by Sage Publications on behalf of McGill University Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9708119 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1461-7471 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13634615 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Transcult Psychiatry Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Published by Sage Publications on behalf of McGill University, c1997-
    • Subject Terms:
      Refugees*/psychology ; Attitude*; Humans ; Greece ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Female ; Male ; Adult
    • Abstract:
      Community reaction to refugees and asylum-seekers is often gauged by attitude surveys that are not designed to overcome built-in bias. Questionnaires that do not account for context and background consequently yield results that misrepresent community attitudes and offer predictably negative responses to immigrant groups. Such surveys can alter public perception, fuel anti-refugee sentiment, and affect policy simply because of how they are constructed. This model survey among humanitarian aid-workers from nine Greek non-governmental organizations uses specific techniques designed to overcome these challenges by applying sample familiarity, non-inflammatory hypothesis-testing, educational question stems, intentional ordering of questions, and direct questioning rather than surrogate measures like statistical approximation. Respondents working in the refugee crisis in Greece demonstrate how empathy, education, and exposure to refugees serve to overcome the harmful stereotypes of outsiders as contributors to crime, terror, and social burden.
      Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: anti-racism; asylum-seekers; attitudes research; humanitarian aid-workers; non-governmental organizations; refugees; survey design
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240522 Date Completed: 20241105 Latest Revision: 20241105
    • Publication Date:
      20241105
    • Accession Number:
      10.1177/13634615241245861
    • Accession Number:
      38775054