Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Department of Psychology, Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo.
Dev Psychol. 2021 May;57(5):662-677. doi: 10.1037/dev0001052.
The Dominican Republic is a uniquely valuable context in which to study children's racial stereotyping and prejudice, in part because multiracial individuals comprise the majority of the population and race is viewed largely as a continuous rather than dichotomous construct. In two studies, we use developmental and social theories to ground an exploration of Dominican children's racial biases. In studies 1 ( = 54; ages 6-11) and 2 ( = 122; ages 6-11), children were given measures of racial identity, preference, stereotyping, and/or status. As expected, children identified their own race in a manner consistent with others (e.g., their teachers). Across a variety of tasks, children failed to consistently favor members of a specific racial group-as indicated by differing levels of racial stereotyping and associations of social status with different races. They did, however, sometimes systematically express greater liking of individuals of mixed racial heritage, a finding that was contingent on the modality of assessment (i.e., whether race was framed as a continuous vs. dichotomous category, and measured via nonforced vs. forced-choice methods). Implications for current theories of racial attitude development are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
多米尼加共和国是一个研究儿童种族刻板印象和偏见的独特而有价值的环境，部分原因是多种族人群构成了大多数人口，而且种族主要被视为一种连续的而不是二分的结构。在两项研究中，我们使用发展和社会理论为探索多米尼加儿童的种族偏见提供了基础。在研究 1（n=54；年龄 6-11 岁）和研究 2（n=122；年龄 6-11 岁）中，儿童接受了种族认同、偏好、刻板印象和/或地位的测量。正如预期的那样，儿童以与他人一致的方式确定自己的种族（例如他们的老师）。在各种任务中，儿童并没有始终如一地偏爱特定种族群体的成员，这表明他们的种族刻板印象程度不同，社会地位与不同种族的关联也不同。然而，他们有时会系统地表达对混血儿个体的更大喜爱，这一发现取决于评估的方式（即种族是被视为连续的还是二分的类别，以及是通过非强制性还是强制性选择方法来测量）。讨论了对当前种族态度发展理论的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
