Patricia Hopkins — Developing an Intergroup Anxiety toward Muslims Scale

Yield

7 of 1411 paragraphs kept (0.5%).

Pre-Assessment

I don’t recognize Patricia Hopkins as an established name in intergroup relations or scale-development methodology, and the title reads like a single peer-reviewed scale-development article (measure construction, factor analysis, validation samples) rather than a book — so authority likely rests on the specific journal and the measure’s subsequent citation record, neither of which I can verify here. Given the psychometric genre and the absence of a stated reading stance or purpose, expect mostly facts and method: item generation, reliability/validity evidence, sample characteristics, and reported correlations. For a reader without a psychometrics background the yield will feel technical; any conceptual framing (e.g., intergroup anxiety theory, contact hypothesis) will be brief setup rather than the core, and inspiration/speculation is unlikely to be the point.

Thesis

Rising migration and terrorism tensions are increasing Muslim–non-Muslim contact worldwide. · ch. 0

Argument

1. Intergroup anxiety is the discomfort felt when interacting with unfamiliar out-group members. — ch. 0
2. Prejudice toward one out-group does not generalize to others. — ch. 1
3. Avoiding physical closeness to Muslims is treated as a measurable component of intergroup anxiety — ch. 5
4. Fear of being perceived as prejudiced itself generates intergroup discomfort — ch. 5
5. Anxiety about appearing prejudiced, not hostility, drives discomfort around Muslims — ch. 5
6. Lack of prior intergroup contact produces measurable anxiety about future contact — ch. 5