Youth's Social Cognitive Responses to Scenes of Ethnic Violence

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议调查的目标是研究青少年接触到媒体对现实世界种族和政治暴力的描述与个人和背景因素相互作用的方式，从而影响对其他族裔群体的态度、信仰和刻板印象。我们特别感兴趣的是，具有相似背景的儿童在信仰、态度和对其他族裔群体的陈规定型观念方面的差异在多大程度上可以由媒体对种族暴力的不同曝光和/或对施暴者和暴力受害者的认同感的差异、同理心的差异以及族裔和社会认同的差异来解释。我们还想审查这种影响的年龄差异，以及这些关系如何因儿童所处的社会种族背景而变化。我们计划通过对底特律两个种族多元化的郊区的高中年轻人进行研究来解决这些问题--一个以阿拉伯裔美国人为主，另一个以犹太裔美国人为主。拟议的设计是一项横断面实地研究，将从九年级和十二年级两个年龄组的青少年中收集数据，每组约有200名参与者。由于种族态度和刻板印象的敏感性，我们计划用两种对偏见不那么敏感的隐性测量来评估参与者的种族刻板印象，同时通过自我报告访谈评估媒体暴露、身份、背景和个人因素以及明确的态度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed investigation is to examine the ways in which adolescents' exposure to media depictions of real-world ethnic and political violence interacts with personal and contextual factors to affect attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes regarding other ethnic groups. We are particularly interested in the extent to which differences in beliefs, attitudes, and stereotypes about other ethnic groups among children with similar backgrounds can be accounted for by differences in media exposure to ethnic violence and/or differences in identification with the aggressors and victims of violence, differences in empathy, and differences in ethnic and social identity. We also want to examine age differences in such effects and how those relations vary by the socio-ethnic context in which the child lives. We plan to address these issues with a study of high school youth in two ethnically diverse suburbs of Detroit - one that is predominately Arab-American and one that is predominately Jewish-American. The proposed design is a cross-sectional field study that will involve collecting data from two age groups of adolescents, ninth and twelfth graders, with approximately 200 participants in each group. Because of the sensitive nature of ethnic attitudes and stereotypes, we plan to assess the participants' ethnic stereotypes with two implicit measures that are less sensitive to bias, while assessing media exposure, identity, contextual and personal factors, and explicit attitudes through self-report interviews.