The development of Tibetan children's racial bias in empathy : The mediating role of ethnic identity and wrongfulness of ethnic intergroup bias

OBJECTIVES: Individuals often automatically have more empathy for same-race members. However, there are no studies on racial bias in empathy (RBE) among Tibetan school-aged children. The present study aimed to examine the development of RBEs, including racial bias in cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and behavioral empathy, in Tibetan school-aged children.

METHOD: In Experiment 1 (N = 108, aged 7-12), ethnic identity was primed using Tibetan and Han names. Then negative and neutral events were applied to measure the RBEs of Tibetan children. In Experiment 2 (N = 148, aged 7-12), negative events were replaced by pain events. In Experiment 3 (N = 60, aged 7-12), Tibetan children's ethnic identity and the awareness of the wrongfulness of ethnic intergroup bias were added to examine the underlying mechanism.

RESULT: Results found that RBEs increased among Tibetan children aged 7-10 and decreased among those aged 11-12, Moreover, we analyzed age as a continuous variable and found that 10 years old was the inflection point in the development of RBEs in Tibetan children. Importantly, children aged 11-12 years old realized more wrongfulness of ethnic intergroup bias than children aged 7-10. The ethnic identity of Tibetan children aged 7-10 mediated the relation between age group and RBEs. And the wrongfulness of ethnic intergroup bias mediated the link between age group and RBEs in Tibetan children aged 9-12.

CONCLUSION: Our study sheds light on the development of RBEs in Tibetan school-aged children and highlights the importance of identifying the appropriate timing for intervening in prejudice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology - (2024) vom: 11. Apr.

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Englisch

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Sheng, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Shuang [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Yousong [VerfasserIn]
Ouyang, Yiting [VerfasserIn]
Duan, Shumin [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Shuilian [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Qiwen [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yongtao [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Wenjun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jun [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 11.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1037/cdp0000651

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NLM370921518