Cross‐ethnic friendships offer a unique opportunity for improving intergroup relations and reduce prejudice, yet ethnic segregation of friendship networks is often seen as a major obstacle to the integration of immigrant students in educational contexts. This article examines the role of perspective‐taking abilities and prejudice towards low social class peers on the probability of cross‐ethnic friendships in a sample of 242 students from five multicultural classrooms in Chile (M_age = 12.3; SD = 0.69, 45% girls). It was expected that students who reported high levels of perspective‐taking abilities and low levels of prejudice towards low social class peers were more likely to form and maintain cross‐ethnic friendships. Longitudinal network analysis (RSiena) was used to examine these hypotheses, confirming the role of both variables in fostering (and reducing) friendships among Chilean and immigrant adolescents. Results are discussed in light of an intersectional framework between social class and ethnicity. Implications for social‐emotional interventions in multicultural educational contexts are also discussed.

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观点采择和低社会阶级偏见对跨种族友谊形成的作用

跨种族友谊为改善群体间关系和减少偏见提供了独特的机会，但友谊网络的种族隔离往往被视为移民学生融入教育环境的主要障碍。本文探讨的角度，迈出低社会阶层的同龄人的能力和偏见跨种族的友谊的概率从智利5个多元文化教室242名学生样本中（的角色中号_时代= 12.3; SD = 0.69，45% 是女孩）。预计报告高水平的观点采择能力和对低社会阶层同龄人的低水平偏见的学生更有可能形成和维持跨种族友谊。纵向网络分析 (RSiena) 用于检验这些假设，证实了这两个变量在促进（和减少）智利和移民青少年之间的友谊方面的作用。根据社会阶级和种族之间的交叉框架讨论结果。还讨论了在多元文化教育环境中社会情感干预的影响。