Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect

Racial awareness and early attitudes was assessed in 50 major-ity-group Spanish children in two age groups (36-48 months and 60-71 months). A series of tasks in a semi-structured interview was administered to test the children‟s: Cognitive performance (classification task), socio-cognitive measures...

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Autores: Guerrero Moreno, Silvia, Enesco, Ileana, Lam, Virginia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
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Palabra clave:Preschoolers
Racial awareness
Racial attitudes
Social cogni-tion
Educación Infantil
Conciencia racial
Actitudes raciales
Cognición social
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spelling Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affectA study with preschool childrenGuerrero Moreno, SilviaEnesco, IleanaLam, VirginiaPreschoolersRacial awarenessRacial attitudesSocial cogni-tionEducación InfantilConciencia racialActitudes racialesCognición socialRacial awareness and early attitudes was assessed in 50 major-ity-group Spanish children in two age groups (36-48 months and 60-71 months). A series of tasks in a semi-structured interview was administered to test the children‟s: Cognitive performance (classification task), socio-cognitive measures (racial awareness by person description, social catego-rization, and self-identification) and affective measures (preferences and rejections). Children were further asked to make attributions about their mothers‟ racial preference and rejection. Overall, children‟s responses in person description and social categorization revealed that gender and col-our of clothes had more salience in their perception than racial cues. In social affect tasks, children displayed a consistent in-group (White) bias, and a slight but noticeable out-group (Black) rejection. It was found that the cognitive performance measure predicted children‟s racial awareness and attitudes better than age did. The findings are compared to our fur-ther research, using the same procedure but in a multiracial context, and discussed in the light of theoretical approaches and the continuing socio-demographic transformations in Spain. Key words: Preschoolers; racial awareness;En este trabajo se evaluó la conciencia racial y las actitudes tempranas en 50 niños españoles del grupo mayoritario (blancos), dividi-dos en dos grupos de edad (36-48 meses y 60-71 meses). Se desarrollaron un conjunto de tareas que, mediante una entrevista semi-estructurada, permitieron obtener una medida del desarrollo cognitivo (tarea de clasifi-cación), medidas socio-cognitivas (tareas de descripción personas, clasifi-cación y la autoidentificación) y medidas afectivas (preferencias y recha-zos). Además, se pidió a los niños que hicieran atribuciones sobre la prefe-rencia o rechazo racial de sus madres. En general, las respuestas de los ni-ños en la descripción y clasificación de personas mostraron que el género y el color de la ropa tenían más relevancia que los atributos raciales. En las tareas afectivas, se encontró un sistemático sesgo endogrupal (blanco) y un leve rechazo hacia el exogrupo (negro). La medida de desarrollo cogni-tivo se relacionaba con la conciencia y actitudes raciales en mayor medida que la edad. Los resultados se comparan con trabajos en los que se ha empleado el mismo procedimiento, pero en un contexto multirracial, y se discuten a partir de los distintos enfoques teóricos y de los continuos cambios sociodemográficos en España.Servicio Publicaciones UM201920192011info:eu-repo/semantics/articletext/plainapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10578/19653reponame:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLMinstname:Universidad de Castilla-La ManchaInglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/196532026-05-27T07:36:41Z
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A study with preschool children
title Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect
spellingShingle Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect
Guerrero Moreno, Silvia
Preschoolers
Racial awareness
Racial attitudes
Social cogni-tion
Educación Infantil
Conciencia racial
Actitudes raciales
Cognición social
title_short Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect
title_full Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect
title_fullStr Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect
title_full_unstemmed Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect
title_sort Racial awareness, cognitive performance and affect
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Guerrero Moreno, Silvia
Enesco, Ileana
Lam, Virginia
author Guerrero Moreno, Silvia
author_facet Guerrero Moreno, Silvia
Enesco, Ileana
Lam, Virginia
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author2 Enesco, Ileana
Lam, Virginia
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Preschoolers
Racial awareness
Racial attitudes
Social cogni-tion
Educación Infantil
Conciencia racial
Actitudes raciales
Cognición social
topic Preschoolers
Racial awareness
Racial attitudes
Social cogni-tion
Educación Infantil
Conciencia racial
Actitudes raciales
Cognición social
description Racial awareness and early attitudes was assessed in 50 major-ity-group Spanish children in two age groups (36-48 months and 60-71 months). A series of tasks in a semi-structured interview was administered to test the children‟s: Cognitive performance (classification task), socio-cognitive measures (racial awareness by person description, social catego-rization, and self-identification) and affective measures (preferences and rejections). Children were further asked to make attributions about their mothers‟ racial preference and rejection. Overall, children‟s responses in person description and social categorization revealed that gender and col-our of clothes had more salience in their perception than racial cues. In social affect tasks, children displayed a consistent in-group (White) bias, and a slight but noticeable out-group (Black) rejection. It was found that the cognitive performance measure predicted children‟s racial awareness and attitudes better than age did. The findings are compared to our fur-ther research, using the same procedure but in a multiracial context, and discussed in the light of theoretical approaches and the continuing socio-demographic transformations in Spain. Key words: Preschoolers; racial awareness;
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