Jaquet Jenny, Schenker Lena-Emilia, Bellingtier Jennifer A, Kornadt Anna E, Riediger Michaela
Department of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Br J Dev Psychol. 2025 Nov;43(4):1027-1040. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.70000. Epub 2025 Jun 16.
We examined age-related attitudes in 56 German children (M = 6.5, 4-8 years; 55% female) using newly developed behavioural (seating and team formation task), explicit (picture rating) and implicit [single-target implicit association test (ST-IAT)] measures. Stimuli comprised pictures of younger and older adults. Children placed younger adults closer to themselves and placed more older adults in an opposing team, rated pictures of younger adults more positively than those of older adults, and evinced more favourable implicit evaluations of younger than older targets. This shows that already young children evaluate younger and older adults differently, underscoring the need for further research on the development of age-related attitudes in childhood.
我们使用新开发的行为（座位安排和分组任务）、外显（图片评级）和内隐[单目标内隐联想测验（ST-IAT）]测量方法，对56名德国儿童（平均年龄6.5岁，4 - 8岁；55%为女性）与年龄相关的态度进行了研究。刺激物包括年轻人和老年人的图片。儿童将年轻人的图片放置得离自己更近，将更多老年人的图片放在对立组，对年轻人图片的评价比对老年人图片更积极，并且对内隐目标的评价显示出对年轻人比对老年人更有利。这表明，幼儿已经对年轻人和老年人有不同的评价，凸显了对儿童与年龄相关态度发展进行进一步研究的必要性。
