Youth's Social Cognitive Responses to Scenes of Ethnic Violence

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议调查的目的是研究青少年接触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，从而影响对其他种族群体的态度、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、态度和对其他种族群体的刻板印象方面的差异，在多大程度上可以用媒体对种族暴力的接触差异和/或对暴力施暴者和受害者的认同差异、同理心的差异以及种族和社会认同的差异来解释。我们还想研究这种影响的年龄差异，以及这些关系如何随着儿童生活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样化郊区的高中青年的研究来解决这些问题——一个主要是阿拉伯裔美国人，另一个主要是犹太裔美国人。提出的设计是一项横断面实地研究，将涉及从两个年龄组的青少年中收集数据，九年级和十二年级，每组大约有200名参与者。由于种族态度和刻板印象的敏感性，我们计划通过两种对偏见不太敏感的内隐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来评估媒体暴露、身份、情境和个人因素以及外显态度。

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.