Blatant and Subtle Prejudice Scale.

BSP (Pettigrew-Meertens)

What it measures

Intergroup prejudice toward outgroups on 2 dimensions: Blatant prejudice (open rejection, threat, opposition to intimacy) and Subtle prejudice (defense of traditional values, exaggeration of cultural differences, denial of positive emotions toward the outgroup)

Length and format

20 (10 blatant + 10 subtle). agreement Likert (typically 1-5 / 1-7) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Validated across multiple European languages (e.g. FR, DE, NL, and others); used widely in European prejudice research

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Pettigrew, T. F., & Meertens, R. W. (1995). Subtle and blatant prejudice in Western Europe. European Journal of Social Psychology, 25(1), 57-75.