Age Differences in Perceptions of Rich and Poor People: Is It Skill or Luck?

Autor/in	Sigelman, Carol K.
Titel	Age Differences in Perceptions of Rich and Poor People: Is It Skill or Luck?
Quelle	In: Social Development, 22 (2013) 1, S.1-18 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/sode.12000
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Income; Advantaged; Disadvantaged; Attribution Theory; Males; Talent; Poverty; Elementary School Students; Student Attitudes; Grade 1; Grade 3; Grade 5; Interrater Reliability; Interviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Einkommen; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Begabung; Hochbegabung; Armut; Schülerverhalten; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Interrater-Reliabilität; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	To gain new perspective on the development of understandings and perceptions of income inequality, this study compared the reactions of six, eight, and 10-year-olds to a rich man and a poor man and the winners and losers of a contest of skill and a game of chance. Age differences in attributions for outcomes reflected a strengthening with age of the skill-luck distinction and of equity thinking about wealth. Although men with good outcomes were generally perceived more positively than men with bad outcomes, and likeability was affected only by outcome, 10-year-olds differentiated most sharply among different types of "winners" or "losers," viewing the rich and poor men as more like the winner and loser of a contest of skill than like the winner and loser of a game of chance. Overall, the findings suggest that differential evaluation of rich and poor people may begin as affective tagging based on good or bad life outcomes and later be associated with justifications grounded in an equity perspective on income inequality that emphasizes the role of personal qualities such as ability in wealth accumulation. (Contains 3 tables, 3 figures, and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10