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Children’s outgroup giving in settings of intergroup conflict: The developmental role of ingroup symbol preference

Alternative Title
Age, ingroup preference and outgroup giving
Author(s)
Taylor, Laura K.  
Dautel, Jocelyn  
Maloku, Edona  
Tomovska Misoska, Ana  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/24442
Date Issued
2021-08-01
Date Available
2023-05-22T14:50:16Z
Abstract
Understanding when children develop a sense of group boundaries has implications for conflict and its resolution. Integrating Social Identity Development Theory and the Developmental Peacebuilding Model, we investigate whether preferences for ethno-religious ingroup symbols mediate the link from child age to outgroup prosocial giving among 5- to 11-year-old children from both majority and minority backgrounds in three settings of protracted intergroup conflict (N=713, M=7.97, SD=1.52, 52.6% female). Participants represented the conflict rival ethno-religious groups in each setting (Northern Ireland (n=299): 48.5% Protestant, 51.5% Catholic; Kosovo (n=220): 54.1% Albanian, 45.9% Serbian; Republic of North Macedonia (RNM) (n=194): 45.9% Macedonian, 54.1% Albanian) and were largely from lower to middle class families; 4% of participants from other ethnic backgrounds were excluded from the current analyses. Multiple group, bias-corrected bootstrapped mediation found that ingroup symbol preference mediated the link from child age to outgroup prosocial giving; that is, older children expressed higher ingroup symbol preference which was linked with lower outgroup giving. Across Northern Ireland, Kosovo, and the RNM, there was some significant variation in the strength of specific paths; however, there was a significant indirect effect in all three settings. The findings advance cross-cultural understanding of how age relates to ingroup symbol preferences and outgroup prosocial giving across the elementary school years, with implications for children’s long-term peacebuilding contributions in three conflict-affected societies.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
APA
Journal
Developmental Psychology
Volume
57
Issue
8
Start Page
1350
End Page
1358
Copyright (Published Version)
2021 American Psychological Association
Subjects

Intergroup conflict

Children

Prosocial behavior

Peacebuilding

Intergroup relations

DOI
10.1037/dev0001222
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0012-1649
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