Children's implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, ethnic group identification, and self-esteem

Ethnic attitudes, identification and self-esteem 1 Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Development (2007), 31, 514-525. RUNNING HEAD: ETHNIC ATTITUDES, IDENTIFICATION AND SELF-ESTEEM Children’s implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, ethnic group identification, and self-esteem

An increasing amount of research explores how children distinguish different aspects of ethnic group attitudes. However, little work has focused on how these aspects tie in with other social and psychological processes. In the present study, 112 black and white children aged 5-, 7and 9-years completed tests of implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, racial and ethnic identification, and s...

Ethnocultural Group Identification and Attitudes to Ethnic Outgroups 151 ETHNOCULTURAL GROUP IDENTIFICATION AND ATTITUDES TO ETHNIC OUTGROUPS

Ethnic Identification, Attitudes, and Group Relations in Guatemala

Despite many studies that address relations between the two major ethnic groups—Indigenous and Ladino—in Guatemala, there are no scales devised specifically to measure ethnic attitudes. Participants (196 university students) indicated agreement or disagreement on a four-point scale with a large pool of items expressing positive and negative attitudes towards the two groups, and, on a line from ...

Ethnic self-awareness as a function of ethnic group status, group composition, and ethnic identity orientation.

This study found that ethnic self-awareness (i.e., the extent to which people are consciously aware of their ethnicity at any given moment) has different meanings for European Americans and Asian Americans and for Asian Americans with different ethnic identity orientations. The authors found main effects of ethnic group status and ethnic composition on ethnic self-awareness when comparing Asian...

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