Ethnic Identification, Attitudes, and Group Relations in Guatemala

Ethnic Identification, Attitudes, and Group Relations in Guatemala

Despite many studies that address relations between the two major ethnic groups—Indigenous and Ladino—in Guatemala, there are no scales devised specifically to measure ethnic attitudes. Participants (196 university students) indicated agreement or disagreement on a four-point scale with a large pool of items expressing positive and negative attitudes towards the two groups, and, on a line from ...

Ethnocultural Group Identification and Attitudes to Ethnic Outgroups 151 ETHNOCULTURAL GROUP IDENTIFICATION AND ATTITUDES TO ETHNIC OUTGROUPS

Ethnic attitudes, identification and self-esteem 1 Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Development (2007), 31, 514-525. RUNNING HEAD: ETHNIC ATTITUDES, IDENTIFICATION AND SELF-ESTEEM Children’s implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, ethnic group identification, and self-esteem

An increasing amount of research explores how children distinguish different aspects of ethnic group attitudes. However, little work has focused on how these aspects tie in with other social and psychological processes. In the present study, 112 black and white children aged 5-, 7and 9-years completed tests of implicit and explicit ethnic group attitudes, racial and ethnic identification, and s...

In-group and out-group attitudes of ethnic majority and minority children

Research indicates that ethnic majority group children show a consistent preference for their ethnic in-group, whereas the ethnic preferences of minority groups are less conclusive. The present study assessed the ethnic attitudes of 5 – 12 year old children from an ethnic majority group (59 Anglo-Australian) and a minority group (60 Pacific Islander). Participants rated members of Anglo-Austral...

persian true and false cognates in english: students and teachers’ attitudes, awareness, and instruction

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...