Racial recipients, social distance, and sharing behavior in children
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Otto Zinser
East Tennessee University
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Roger C. Bailey
East Tennessee University
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Ralph Edgar
East Tennessee University
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- Keywords:
- sharing behavior, children, race, social distance, social interactions
- Abstract
- Thirty-six preschoolers and 41 second graders were asked: (a) to rank, in order of preference, a white child, a black child, and an Indian child as recipients of sharing; (b) to share with the preferred recipient items of low and high value; and (c) to rank the 3 recipients as companions in several hypothetical, social interaction situations varying in social distance. The distributions of first choices for sharing indicated that the preschool participants preferred the white recipient most, the Indian recipient next, and the black recipient least, while the second graders preferred the Indian recipient over the white and black recipients. The second graders who preferred the black recipient shared a larger number of items than those who preferred to share with one of the other two recipients. The distributions of first choices for the social distance items were generally consistent with those for sharing, and participants from one school exhibited some differential sensitivity to the items of the social distance scale. The results of this investigation and those of previous research suggest that the influence of the race of the recipient on sharing behavior varies with the experimental design used.
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- 1976-02-01
- Issue
- Volume 4, 1976, Issue 1
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