Perceptions of Economic Inequality Are Related to Children's Judgments about Access to Opportunities

Autor/in	Elenbaas, Laura
Titel	Perceptions of Economic Inequality Are Related to Children's Judgments about Access to Opportunities
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 3, S.471-481 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Elenbaas, Laura)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000550
Schlagwörter	Moral Values; Children; Early Adolescents; Socioeconomic Status; Summer Programs; Access to Education; Equal Education; Logical Thinking; Resource Allocation; Social Justice; Educational Opportunities; Childhood Attitudes; Participative Decision Making; Social Bias; Social Attitudes; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Age Differences; Interests; Peer Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Child; Kind; Kinder; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sommerkurs; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Ressourcenallokation; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Bildungsinteresse; Peer-Beziehungen
Abstract	This study examined how children's perceptions of economic inequalities impacted their moral judgments about access to opportunities. The sample included ethnically diverse 8- to 14-year-olds (N = 267; M = 11.61 years, SD = 1.88) of middle- to upper-middle-income backgrounds. The larger the economic inequality in access to opportunities children perceived, the more negatively they evaluated granting access to a specific opportunity (an educational summer camp) to high-wealth peers alone, and the more they reasoned about the importance of fair access to learning. Further, children were more supportive of admitting low-wealth peers when they knew they had been excluded from the opportunity in the past, and children who chose to admit low-wealth peers reasoned about the implications of broader economic inequalities. Finally, most children preferred to take an active role in determining who should receive access to this special opportunity rather than leaving the decision to chance. These findings provide evidence for how perceptions of both broad and context specific intergroup relations contribute to moral judgments in childhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01