Contact and Attitudes Toward International Students in Australia: Intergroup Anxiety and Intercultural Communication Emotions as Mediators

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 491-504

  Mak, Anita S ^a   Brown, Patricia M ^a   Wadey, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

cultural psychology; group processes; intergroup relations prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894388284     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022113509883     Document Type: Article

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