ERIC Number: ED137427
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 144
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Ethnic Esteem Among Anglo, Black, and Chicano Children.
LeVine, Elaine Sue
This study examines selected patterns of ethnic esteem among Anglo, Black, and Chicano children. The experimental population includes second and fifth grade students from a midwestern (Greater Kansas City, Missouri) elementary school in which Anglos, Blacks, and Chicanos attend in approximately equal proportions. Thirty-six Anglo, 59 Blacks, and 44 Chicano students participated in the study. Students were requested to rate twelve statements, based upon Coopersmith's (1967) antecendents of self-esteem, to Anglo, Black, and Chicano cues presented as photographed children and as classmates' names. The standardized procedures were administered by trained Anglo, Black, and Chicano examiners. Snapshots employed in administration of the photographic differential were those preselected on the basis of results of a pilot study which determined their degree of attractiveness for each target group. Sex and ethnicity of examiners, relative attractiveness of photographs, sex, age, and socioeconomic level of subjects were controlled. Among the results of the study are the following: (1) Blacks generally indicated higher own group preference than Anglos and Chicanos, and Chicanos' own group preference exceeded that of Anglos, (2) Anglo, Black, and Chicano children responded differentially to specific requests concerning aspects of ethnic preference on both the photographic and sociometric differentials, and (3) differences in the assignment of the four esteem antecedents can be related to cultural factors of each ethnic group and to specific socioeconomic factors of the experimental community. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Ethnic Groups, Mexican Americans, Photographs, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Sociometric Techniques, White Students
R and E Research Associates, 4843 Mission Street, San Francisco, California 94112 ($9.00)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Identifiers - Location: Missouri
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