Pre-schoolers' images, intergroup attitudes, and liking of refugee peers in Germany.

ABSTRACT: There is extensive research on children's intergroup attitudes, but their perceptions of refugee children have rarely been studied. We conducted a study with 5- and 6-year-old children (N = 60) in Germany following the arrival of unprecedented large numbers of refugees in 2015 and 2016. Children completed a set of three tasks that measured their perceptions of refugee children (minority group) and German children (majority group): a draw-a-typical-child task (including questions about whether participants wanted to interact with the depicted child), an intergroup attitude task, and a liking task. Results indicate that participants drew similar pictures of and had similar intentions to interact with refugee children and German children. There was mixed evidence for group favouritism: while

SUBMITTER: Wurbel I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9894457 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature