Children's Self-Presentations with Infants: Gender and Ethnic Comparisons

• Published in: Sex roles Vol. 29; no. 3-4; pp. 171 - 181
• Main Authors: Reid, Pamela Trotman, Trotter, Katherine Hulse
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Springer 01.08.1993; Plenum Pub. Corp; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: African Americans; Babies; Biological and medical sciences; Black Students; Black White Differences; Children; Children & youth; Comparative Analysis; Differential and comparative psychology; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Ethnic Groups; Ethnicity; Factors; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gender differences; Infants; Interpersonal Relations; Middle Class; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Race; Racial Differences; Responses; Self Presentations; Sex Differences; Sex Stereotypes; Sexes; Social research; Socialization; Tennessee (Chattanooga); USA; White Students; Working Class; Tennessee (Chattanooga); Human; Social development; Crosscultural study; Social behavior; Peer relation; Social interaction; Cultural environment; Sex; Black American; Child; Ethnic group
• ISSN: 0360-0025; 1573-2762
• DOI: 10.1007/BF00289934

A study of 53 8- to 10-year-old children from African-American and white working- to middle-class families in Chattanooga (Tennessee) supports the hypothesis that, compared to white children, African-American children are less stereotyped in their responses to African-American and white infants. Gender differences are evident for Whites but not African Americans. (SLD)