Children's evaluations of interethnic exclusion: The effects of ethnic boundaries, respondent ethnicity, and majority in-group bias
| Autor: | Thijs, J.T., Leerstoel Verkuijten, Migration, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Relation |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adolescent Social exclusion media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Ethnic group Emigrants and Immigrants 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Peer Group Minority children Racism Cultural diversity Discrimination Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences In-group favoritism Evaluations Social isolation Child Minority Groups Ethnic bias media_common Social Identification Social distance 05 social sciences Age Factors Peer group Cultural Diversity Preadolescence Psychological Distance Social Isolation Majority children Female Rejection Psychology medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 158, 46. Academic Press Inc. |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| Popis: | Two vignette studies were conducted in which preadolescent children (Study 1: N = 542; Study 2: N = 137; aged 8–13 years) evaluated the exclusion, for unknown reasons, of an immigrant minority child by a native majority peer (majority interethnic exclusion). Study 1 compared children’s evaluations of majority interethnic exclusion with their evaluations of (majority and minority) intraethnic exclusion and minority interethnic exclusion, and Study 2 examined children’s underlying explanations. Each study compared ethnic majority and ethnic minority respondents and examined the role of in-group bias for the former. Overall, both ethnic majority and ethnic minority respondents regarded majority interethnic exclusion more negatively than the other exclusion types (majority intraethnic, minority interethnic, and minority intraethnic). All children, but especially older minority respondents, were more likely to reject majority interethnic exclusion if they perceived it to be discriminatory (ethnicity based). Among the majority children, a strong in-group bias was associated with a weaker condemnation of majority interethnic exclusion, but this was not due to a larger tolerance of ethnicity-based discrimination. Biased majority children were also less likely to reject minority intraethnic exclusion, indicating an overall weaker concern for out-group victims. Taken together, the studies show that children are relatively negative about majority (prototypical) interethnic exclusion because it implies the possibility of ethnic discrimination, and they concur with previous evidence for a developmental increase in the awareness of discrimination in ethnic minority youths. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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