Parents' and classmates' influences on adolescents' ethnic prejudice: A longitudinal multi-informant study

Beatrice Bobba; Susan Branje; Elisabetta Crocetti

doi:10.1111/cdev.14087

Parents' and classmates' influences on adolescents' ethnic prejudice: A longitudinal multi-informant study

Beatrice Bobba^*
, Susan Branje
, Elisabetta Crocetti

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Bologna

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Abstract

The family and classroom are important contexts that can contribute to the socialization of ethnic prejudice. However, less is known about their unique, relative, and synergic contributions in influencing youth's affective and cognitive prejudice. The current longitudinal study examined these processes and possible moderators among 688 Italian youth (49.13% girls; M_age = 15.61 years), their parents (n_mothers = 603, n_fathers = 471; M_age = 49.51 years), and classmates between January/February 2022 and January/February 2023. Cross-lagged panel models highlighted that parents and classmates exert unique and relative influences on different dimensions of adolescents' prejudice. Additionally, different interaction effects also emerged for affective (i.e., adverse compensatory effect) and cognitive (i.e., amplifying effect) prejudice. Thus, adolescents draw from the multiple contexts of development to orient themselves in the social world.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1522-1538
Number of pages	17
Journal	Child Development
Volume	95
Issue number	5
Early online date	8 Mar 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14087
Publication status	Published - Sept 2024

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© 2024 The Author(s). Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.

Funding

This work was supported by a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ERC\u2010CoG IDENTITIES Grant agreement N. [101002163]; Principal investigator: Elisabetta Crocetti). This work was supported by a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ERC-CoG IDENTITIES Grant agreement N. [101002163]; Principal investigator: Elisabetta Crocetti).

Funders	Funder number
Horizon 2020
European Research Council
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	101002163
ERC-CoG	101002163

Keywords

Humans
Adolescent
Female
Male
Longitudinal Studies
Italy/ethnology
Parent-Child Relations/ethnology
Adult
Prejudice/ethnology
Adolescent Behavior/ethnology
Parents
Ethnicity

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