Status Dynamics in the Classroom: Roma Children's Implicit and Explicit Preference for Majority Children Across Age Groups
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2019
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Roma children are often segregated within the Serbian education system: They are disproportionally placed in special schools or put in ethnically homogeneous classrooms. Even in nonsegregated environments, they face everyday discrimination-an 80% dropout rate from elementary school testifies to that. Being a stigmatized minority might contribute to negative social identity, manifested in reversed in-group-out-group preferences. In this cross-sectional study, we investigated (a) if Roma children exhibit implicit/explicit preference for the majority group, and compared their preferences with those of majority children; (b) if these preferences differ in two age groups (second/third and seventh-grade elementary school); and (c) if they relate to academic self-efficacy. A total of 89 children completed the implicit associations test (IAT) test, three measures of explicit ethnic preference (semantic differential, feeling thermometer, and social distance), and a measure of academic self-effi...cacy. While Serbian children showed consistent explicit and implicit in-group preference, in Roma, we found out-group preferences on both sets of measures. Age-wise, the older group of Roma showed less explicit out-group preferences only in social distance, but not in other measures; the older children showed higher implicit out-group preference (Roma), and slightly lower implicit in-group preference (Serbs), in comparison with the younger. Finally, implicit, but not explicit, out-group preference predicted lower academic self-efficacy in Roma. Our findings demonstrate that out-group preference in Roma children is a robust phenomenon, and that implicit preference is stronger with age. This implies that schooling alone will not reduce negative social identity and that the minority children need to be strategically empowered.
Кључне речи:
Roma / out-group preference / negative social identity / in-group preference / implicit attitudes / explicit attitudes / ethnic attitudes / children / academic self-efficacyИзвор:
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2019, 50, 4, 577-593Издавач:
- Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks
DOI: 10.1177/0022022119828498
ISSN: 0022-0221
WoS: 000463918700006
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85061588729
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Rados, Sonja AU - Zdraveva, Marija AU - Žeželj, Iris PY - 2019 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2833 AB - Roma children are often segregated within the Serbian education system: They are disproportionally placed in special schools or put in ethnically homogeneous classrooms. Even in nonsegregated environments, they face everyday discrimination-an 80% dropout rate from elementary school testifies to that. Being a stigmatized minority might contribute to negative social identity, manifested in reversed in-group-out-group preferences. In this cross-sectional study, we investigated (a) if Roma children exhibit implicit/explicit preference for the majority group, and compared their preferences with those of majority children; (b) if these preferences differ in two age groups (second/third and seventh-grade elementary school); and (c) if they relate to academic self-efficacy. A total of 89 children completed the implicit associations test (IAT) test, three measures of explicit ethnic preference (semantic differential, feeling thermometer, and social distance), and a measure of academic self-efficacy. While Serbian children showed consistent explicit and implicit in-group preference, in Roma, we found out-group preferences on both sets of measures. Age-wise, the older group of Roma showed less explicit out-group preferences only in social distance, but not in other measures; the older children showed higher implicit out-group preference (Roma), and slightly lower implicit in-group preference (Serbs), in comparison with the younger. Finally, implicit, but not explicit, out-group preference predicted lower academic self-efficacy in Roma. Our findings demonstrate that out-group preference in Roma children is a robust phenomenon, and that implicit preference is stronger with age. This implies that schooling alone will not reduce negative social identity and that the minority children need to be strategically empowered. PB - Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks T2 - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology T1 - Status Dynamics in the Classroom: Roma Children's Implicit and Explicit Preference for Majority Children Across Age Groups EP - 593 IS - 4 SP - 577 VL - 50 DO - 10.1177/0022022119828498 ER -
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Rados, S., Zdraveva, M.,& Žeželj, I.. (2019). Status Dynamics in the Classroom: Roma Children's Implicit and Explicit Preference for Majority Children Across Age Groups. in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks., 50(4), 577-593. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022119828498
Rados S, Zdraveva M, Žeželj I. Status Dynamics in the Classroom: Roma Children's Implicit and Explicit Preference for Majority Children Across Age Groups. in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 2019;50(4):577-593. doi:10.1177/0022022119828498 .
Rados, Sonja, Zdraveva, Marija, Žeželj, Iris, "Status Dynamics in the Classroom: Roma Children's Implicit and Explicit Preference for Majority Children Across Age Groups" in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50, no. 4 (2019):577-593, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022119828498 . .