Relational Anxietyin Interracial Interactions

摘要

Most of the research on intergroup anχiety has eχamined the impact of people's own anχiety on their own outcomes. In contrast, we show that in intergroup inter_actions, one's partner's anχiety is just as important as one's own anχiety (if not more important). Using a diary study among college roommates, we show that partners' anχiety predicts respondents' anχiety across time on a daily basis, as well as respondents' interest in liυing together again the neχt year. We discuss the importance of taking a relational approach to understanding intergroup interactions.