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'This Kid Looks Like He Has Everything': 3- to 11-Year-Old Children's Concerns for Fairness and Social Preferences When Peers Differ in Social Class and Race

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العنوان: 'This Kid Looks Like He Has Everything': 3- to 11-Year-Old Children's Concerns for Fairness and Social Preferences When Peers Differ in Social Class and Race
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Elenbaas, Laura (ORCID 0000-0002-4921-251X), Luken Raz, Katherine, Ackerman, Amanda, Kneeskern, Ellen
المصدر: Child Development. Sep-Oct 2022 93(5):1527-1539.
الإتاحة: Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
تاريخ النشر: 2022
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Children, Social Influences, Resource Allocation, Social Class, Racial Differences, Age Differences, Preferences, Childrens Attitudes, Socioeconomic Status, African Americans, Whites, Racism, Social Bias, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13778
تدمد: 0009-3920
1467-8624
مستخلص: This study investigated 3- to 11-year-old US children's (N = 348) perceptions of access to resources, social group preferences, and resource distribution decisions and reasoning when hypothetical peers differed in social class (poor or rich) and race (Black or White). Data were collected in 2019. The sample reflected the region where data were collected in terms of gender (44% girls, 30% boys, 1% another identity) and race and ethnicity (46% White, 10% multiracial or multiethnic, 9% Black, 5% Latinx, 2% Asian, 3% another identity), and parents reported a higher average level of education than the regional average. Results revealed both marked age differences in children's perceptions, preferences, decisions, and reasoning and specific combinations of peer group memberships that were especially likely to receive preferential treatment. With age, children perceived that rich peers had greater access to resources than poor peers, but when both peers were poor, White peers were perceived to have more resources than Black peers. Social group preferences changed with age, from mixed social class and racial group preferences, to preferences for rich peers, to dislike for rich peers. Resource allocation decisions and reasoning reflected both social group and fairness concerns: young children distributed more to White peers especially if they were also rich, participants in middle childhood explicitly favored rich peers regardless of their race, and older children distributed more to poor peers and reasoned about either moral concerns for equity or social class stereotypes. Thus, overall, younger children's responses often reflected broader economic and racial inequalities while older children often sought to create more equity, though not always for moral reasons.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2022
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1346678
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
الوصف
تدمد:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/cdev.13778