CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology.
Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dev Psychol. 2021 Dec;57(12):2220-2233. doi: 10.1037/dev0001255.
To examine whether implicit social cognition is developmentally stable or variable, this study investigated three primary types of implicit social cognition (self-esteem, the gender-science stereotype, and racial attitude) across 2 years in a sample of Chinese adolescents and emerging adults (N = 608; 56% female; 15- to 27-year-olds). Rank-order stability analyses indicated that implicit self-esteem and implicit racial attitude manifested low stability (r = .16, .19, respectively), whereas implicit gender-science stereotype was highly stable (r = .75). Latent change score model analyses showed that: (a) the mean level of implicit self-esteem decreased across the 2 years, whereas the mean levels of implicit gender-science stereotype and implicit racial attitude manifested no changes; (b) individual changes were heterogeneous for all the three types of implicit social cognition (while some of the participants manifested increasing tendencies, 15%-46%, the others exhibited decreasing tendencies); (c) 30% of participants manifested similar changes across the three types of implicit social cognition (either increasing or decreasing over time on all three), while the remaining participants exhibited distinct changes across them. Together, these findings indicate that, developmentally, implicit social cognition is variable but also stable, though the degree of variability and stability vary across individuals and domains. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
为了考察内隐社会认知是否具有发展稳定性或可变性，本研究在一个中国青少年和新兴成年人样本中（N=608；56%为女性；年龄在 15 至 27 岁之间），在 2 年内考察了内隐社会认知的三种主要类型（自尊、性别-科学刻板印象和种族态度）。等级稳定性分析表明，内隐自尊和内隐种族态度的稳定性较低（r=0.16、0.19），而内隐性别-科学刻板印象的稳定性很高（r=0.75）。潜在变化分数模型分析显示：（a）内隐自尊的平均水平在 2 年内呈下降趋势，而内隐性别-科学刻板印象和内隐种族态度的平均水平没有变化；（b）所有三种类型的内隐社会认知的个体变化都是异质的（虽然一些参与者表现出增加的趋势，占 15%-46%，但其他人表现出减少的趋势）；（c）30%的参与者在三种类型的内隐社会认知中表现出相似的变化（在所有三种认知上，随着时间的推移都呈现出增加或减少的趋势），而其余参与者则在不同认知上表现出不同的变化。总之，这些发现表明，从发展的角度来看，内隐社会认知是可变的，但也是稳定的，尽管个体和领域的可变性和稳定性程度不同。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
