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.

The new socio-cultural scenario produced by immigration in schools implies a complex process of psychosocial adjustment. National students must also face diverse and new challenges as a result of immigration, which are linked to the perception and management of cultural differences. This paper aims to identify acculturative profiles in a sample (N = 426) of Chilean secondary school students. Cluster analysis allowed us to find a solution of three acculturative profiles (Tolerant Individualist, Undifferentiated Individualist and Undifferentiated Ethnocentric). Results show that these profiles differ in their levels of Affective Prejudice, Cultural Self-efficacy, and Well-being. These findings stress the importance of promoting social environments which could improve positive intergroup contact to enable the development of intercultural competence from early stages of life.

El nuevo escenario sociocultural producido por la inmigración en los colegios implica un complejo proceso de ajuste psicosocial. Los estudiantes nacionales también deben enfrentar diversos y nuevos desafíos producto de la inmigración, que se vinculan tanto con la percepción y gestión de las diferencias culturales. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo identificar perfiles aculturativos en una muestra de estudiantes secundarios chilenos (N  =  426). El análisis de conglomerados permitió encontrar una solución de tres perfiles aculturativos (Individualismo Tolerante, Individualista Indiferenciado y Etnocentrista Indiferenciado). Los resultados muestran que dichos perfiles se diferencian en Prejuicio Afectivo, Autoeficacia Cultural y Bienestar. Se discute sobre la importancia de generar entornos que favorezcan el contacto intergrupal positivo, para así posibilitar el desarrol...

Aunque el aumento del alumnado inmigrante en Chile subraya la importancia de estudiar actitudes de los docentes hacia la multiculturalidad, existe un déficit de instrumentos de medida para ser aplicados a la población local. El objetivo de este estudio es validar la Escala de Actitudes hacia la Multiculturalidad en la Escuela (León del Barco et al., 2007) en una muestra compuesta por N=160 profesores chilenos. Se estableció que el modelo unifactorial presenta el mejor ajuste a los datos, y se determinó la existencia de relaciones significativas entre la actitud hacia la multiculturalidad, la amenaza exogrupal percibida y el prejuicio. Los análisis de regresión lineal señalan que la amenaza exogrupal percibida y el prejuicio, explican el 42% de la variabilidad de la actitud hacia la multiculturalidad, apoyando la validez de criterio de la escala.

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.

The new socio-cultural scenario produced by immigration in schools implies a complex process of psychosocial adjustment. National students must also face diverse and new challenges as a result of immigration, which are linked to the perception and management of cultural differences. This paper aims to identify acculturative profiles in a sample (N = 426) of Chilean secondary school students. Cluster analysis allowed us to find a solution of three acculturative profiles (Tolerant Individualist, Undifferentiated Individualist and Undifferentiated Ethnocentric). Results show that these profiles differ in their levels of Affective Prejudice, Cultural Self-efficacy, and Well-being. These findings stress the importance of promoting social environments which could improve positive intergroup contact to enable the development of intercultural competence from early stages of life.