Race and the workforce: Occupational status, aspirations, and stereotyping among African American children
Race and the workforce: Occupational status, aspirations, and stereotyping among African American children
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.39.3.572
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发表时间：
2003-05-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Liben, LS
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作者：
Bigler, RS;Averhart, CJ;Liben, LS
这项研究考察了非裔美国儿童对职业地位的看法和他们自己的职业兴趣是否受到劳动力种族隔离的影响。儿童(N=92)根据地位、可取性和刻板印象对熟悉的职业进行评级。孩子们还对非洲裔美国人、欧洲裔美国人或非洲裔和欧洲裔美国人都描述过的新奇工作进行了评分。正如预测的那样，对于熟悉的工作，孩子们的判断与他们对这些工作的种族隔离的了解有关。此外，与欧洲裔美国人描述的相同职业相比，非裔美国人描述的新职业在地位上被判断为较低，这表明工人种族对儿童判断的因果影响。儿童的年龄和社会经济背景影响了他们的职业判断。
This study examined whether African American children's perceptions of occupational status and their own vocational interests are affected by racial segregation of the workforce. Children (N = 92) rated familiar occupations with respect to status, desirability, and stereotyping. Children also rated novel jobs that had been depicted with African Americans, European Americans, or both African and European Americans. As predicted, for familiar jobs, children's judgments were linked to their knowledge of racial segregation of these jobs. In addition, novel occupations that had been depicted with African Americans were judged as lower in status than the identical occupations that had been depicted with European Americans, demonstrating a causal influence of workers' race on children's judgments. Children's age and socioeconomic background moderated their occupational judgments.