Attitude of Filipinos Residing in Quezon City, Philippines Towards Russians

Attitude (sense of intimacy/affinity or antipathy) of Filipinos living in Quezon City, Philippines toward Russians was determined using an enhanced 7-item Bogardus’ Social Distance Scale. Based on power analysis for a 2 x 3 x 3 ANOVA design, 209 respondents were required and randomly selected to analyze the main effects and interaction effects of three independent variables (gender, age, and social class) on one dependent variable (a composite attitude score). Gender was categorized into Male and Female; Age into Generation X, Baby Boomer, and Millennial; and Social Class into Class A, Class B, and Class C. The average attitude of respondents was intimacy/affinity. All first order effects and second order effect were found not statistically significant at α = .05. Only the main effect of social class was statistically significant (p = .005) where Class A (those who live in high-end subdivision) rated Russians more favorably than did Class C (those who are unemployed, tricycle drivers, sidewalk vendors, and the like) although both classes were found on the intimacy/affinity side of the scale. Further tests revealed that on items 2 to 7 of the scale (ITEM2 – Close friend, ITEM3 – Neighbor on my street, ITEM4 – Co-worker, ITEM5 – Citizen in my country, ITEM6 – Visitor in my country, ITEM7 – Disallow to enter the country), Filipinos expressed statistically significant intimacy/affinity. But on ITEM1 (Close relative marriage), they were ambivalent or undecided.