Does racial diversity affect White children’s racial bias and reasoning? Depends on where they live and how their social world is structured.
Does racial diversity affect White children’s racial bias and reasoning? Depends on where they live and how their social world is structured.
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种族多样性是否会影响白人儿童的种族偏见和推理？
DOI：
10.1037/dev0001644
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Rhodes, Marjorie
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作者：
Burke, Nicole;Rizzo, Michael T.;Britton, Tobias C.;Rhodes, Marjorie
到4岁时，美国各地的白人儿童开始表现出种族不平等的意识，以及对其他白人儿童的群体偏好。本研究探讨了白人儿童社交网络(如朋友、家人和同学)和邻居(邮政编码)的规模和种族多样性与他们对美国263个独特邮政编码的395名白人儿童(年龄=4-11岁；男性=6.6岁)的种族差异和反黑人偏见的解释的差异之间的关系。低多样性社区的白人儿童更有可能支持对种族不平等的外部解释，因为他们的网络多样性增加了，而对于那些生活在高多样性社区的白人儿童来说，网络多样性与儿童的选择无关。即使在控制了父母对多样性的信念之后，这些发现仍然成立，这些信念本身与孩子的网络和社区多样性呈正相关。一项探索性分析显示，只有在小网络中的白人儿童，随着他们网络中有色人种儿童数量的增加，他们更有可能选择与黑人儿童玩耍。结果表明，儿童社交网络和社区的多样性与儿童种族信仰的发展是如何以上下文依赖的方式相关的。
By 4 years of age, White children from across the United States begin to exhibit an awareness of racial inequalities, along with in-group preferences for other White children. The present study explored how the size and racial diversity of White children’s social network (eg, friends, family, and classmates) and neighborhood (zip code) are related to variation in their explanations for racial disparities and anti-Black bias among a sample of 395 White children (ages= 4–11 years old; M age= 6.6 years) from 263 unique zip codes across the United States. White children in neighborhoods with low diversity were more likely to endorse an extrinsic explanation for racial inequality as their network diversity increased, whereas network diversity did not relate to children’s choices for those who lived in neighborhoods with high diversity. These findings held even after controlling for parents’ beliefs about diversity, which were themselves positively correlated with children’s network and neighborhood diversity. An exploratory analysis revealed that for White children in small networks only, as the number of children of color in their network increased, they were more likely to choose to play with a Black child. Results demonstrate how the diversity of children’s social networks and neighborhoods relates to children’s developing racial beliefs in contextually dependent ways.