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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Xiao, Sonya Xinyue
• Spinrad, Tracy L.
• Xu, Jingyi
• Eisenberg, Nancy
• Laible, Deborah J.
• Carlo, Gustavo
• Gal-Szabo, Diana E.
• Berger, Rebecca H.
• Xu, Xiaoye

Titel

Parents' valuing diversity and White children's prosociality toward White and Black peers

Ist Teil von

• Journal of applied developmental psychology, 2022-11, Vol.83, p.101459, Article 101459

Ort / Verlag

Norwood: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although scholars are increasingly building empirical evidence that helps us understand racism, they have conducted surprisingly little research on White children's prosocial behavior toward historically marginalized people. 190 White, non-Hispanic children (M = 7.09 years, 54.2% boys) participated in the study. We examined whether both parents' reported values for racial diversity in their children's friendships and parents' and teachers' reports of children's cross-race friendships were related to children's sharing behaviors toward Black or White peers. We found that parents' valuing of diversity was positively related to older, but not younger, children's sharing behavior toward Black peers but not White peers. Further, for children of all age, parental diversity values were positively related to teachers' and parents' report of children's cross-race friendships. Our findings indicate that interventions to improve White children's positive behavior toward Black peers should include a focus on contexts that promote equity (i.e., parents' values and friendships). •We aimed to examine how parents' diversity values were related to White children's race-based prosocial outcomes.•In a laboratory visit, we assessed children's race-based prosocial outcomes using two resource distribution tasks.•Parents' valuing of diversity positively predicted White children's sharing with Black peers.•Parents' valuing of diversity positively predicted prosocial behavior for older children.•Parents' valuing of diversity positively predicted White children's cross-race friendships.