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. 2019 Nov 25;14(11):e0225240. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225240

Table 3. Means and standard deviations for CQS total scores across participants with either positive or negative attitude towards foreign residents (e.g. refuges, immigrants, foreign-born people).

Attitude toward
foreign residents and minorities
Positive Negative
M SD M SD Statistics
Having a close/friendly relationship with culturally divergent people 90.13 18.90 76.61 18.74 t(347) = 6.53,
p < .001, *q = .003, d = .72)
Living abroad for
at least a month in the past
88.51 20.48 80.18 19.44 t(347) = 3.14,
p = .002, *q = 033., d = .42)
Would you be willing to marry: German 85.29 19.70 71.80 19.15 t(274) = 4.57,
p < .001, *q = .013, d = .69)
Muslim 90.44 21.53 79.22 19.50 t(283) = 2.82,
p = .005, *q = .037, d = .55)
African-American 87.26 18.96 71.97 19.70 t(260) = 5.77,
p < .001, *q = .007, d = .79)
Russian 87.04 19.73 74.73 18.39 t(262) = 4.66,
p < .001, *q = .010, d = .65)
Roma 88.80 20.66 77.85 18.96 t(251) = 3.69,
p < .001, *q = .020, d = .55)
Jehovah's Witness 88.57 21.54 78.25 18.77 t(260) = 3.46,
p < .001, *q = .023, d = .51)
Jew 85.38 20.59 75.30 18.37 t(251) = 3.82,
p < .001, *q = .017, d = .52)
Should refugees from Syria and Iraq
be accepted by the Polish government?
88.88 20.91 78.98 19.07 t(259) = 3.21,
p < .001, *q = .027, d = .49)
Granting free university education to refugees from Syria and Iraq 84.81 19.39 78.74 20.37 t(266) = 2.26,
p = .025, *q = .043, d = .31)
Granting free health care to: Europeans 82.33 20.26 84.50 14.96 t(322) = .30,
p = .763, q = .050, d = .12)
Muslims 86.53 20.25 77.56 18.25 t(256) = 3.14,
p < .001, *q = .030, d = .47)
Romani people 85.21 20.52 77.38 18.39 t(256) = 2.41,
p < .017, *q = .040, d = .40)
African-Americans 84.62 20.68 78.21 18.16 t(265) = 1.82,
p = .070, q = .047, d = .33)

Note. Tests are statistically significant at the corrected q = .043 level. Significant results are marked with an asterisk (e.g. *q). Positive attitude indicated being open to culturally divergent groups of people (e.g. agreeing to provide them with medical education free of charge).