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Interwealth Contact and Young Children's Concern for Equity.

Laura Elenbaas1

  • 1University of Rochester.

Child Development
|October 2, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Children with more contact with low-wealth individuals showed more equitable resource distribution. Early interwealth contact promotes fairer peer interactions by influencing social-cognitive reasoning about resource access.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Economic Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding early childhood socio-economic perceptions is crucial.
  • Limited research exists on how children's interactions with diverse wealth backgrounds influence their behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between young children's contact with individuals of varying wealth and their peer interactions.
  • To explore the role of social-cognitive reasoning in mediating these effects.

Main Methods:

  • Study involved 72 ethnically diverse, higher-income children (average age 6.68 years).
  • Assessed children's contact with low-wealth individuals (interwealth contact).
  • Evaluated behavior in a resource distribution task involving peers of different wealth statuses.

Main Results:

  • Interwealth contact indirectly influenced children's behavior via social-cognitive reasoning.
  • Increased interwealth contact led to reasoning about resource access over personal wealth preferences.
  • This reasoning correlated with more equitable resource allocation to low-wealth peers.

Conclusions:

  • Early exposure to diverse socio-economic backgrounds fosters more equitable peer interactions.
  • Social-cognitive reasoning acts as a key mechanism linking interwealth contact to fairness.
  • Findings highlight the importance of interwealth contact for developing prosocial behavior in children.

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