ERIC Number: EJ1202488
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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Interwealth Contact and Young Children's Concern for Equity
Child Development, v90 n1 p108-116 Jan-Feb 2019
This study examined young children's contact with individuals of high-wealth and low-wealth backgrounds and their behavior toward peers of these backgrounds in a resource distribution task. The sample included 72 ethnically diverse higher income children (M[subscript age] = 6.68 years, SD = 0.98 years). Contact with individuals of low-wealth backgrounds (interwealth contact) affected children's behavior indirectly, through social-cognitive reasoning processes. The more interwealth contact children reported, the more likely they were to reason about access to resources rather than their own wealth preferences in this context. This reasoning, in turn, was associated with more resources allocated to a low-wealth peer relative to a high-wealth peer. Thus, interwealth contact early in development was associated with more equitable peer interactions.
Descriptors: Advantaged, Family Income, Low Income, Peer Relationship, Child Behavior, Child Development, Task Analysis, Social Cognition, Preferences, Thinking Skills, Correlation, Resource Allocation, Intergroup Relations, Social Differences, Ethnic Groups, Young Children
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Language: English
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