Social Judgments and Emotion Attributions About Exclusion in Switzerland

Adolescents' social judgments and emotion attributions about exclusion in three contexts, nationality, gender, and personality, were measured in a sample of 12-and 15-year-old Swiss and non-Swiss adolescents (N = 247). Overall, adolescents judged exclusion based on nationality as less acceptabl...

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Published in:Child development 2012-03, Vol.83 (2), p.697-711
Main Authors: Malti, Tina, Killen, Melanie, Gasser, Luciano
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age Factors
Attribution Theory
Attributions
Biological and medical sciences
Character
Child
Child development
Children
Developmental psychology
Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology
Emotion
Emotional development
Emotional Response
Emotions
Empathy
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Exclusion
Female
Foreign Countries
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender
Gender Differences
Gender differentiation
Gender Identity
Happiness
Humans
Immigrants
Judgement
Judgment
Male
Moral judgment
Nationality
Noncitizens
Personality
Positive affect
Psychology, Adolescent
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reasoning
Rejection (Psychology)
Sex Factors
Social Behavior
Social desirability
Social Identification
Social inequality
Social Isolation
Switzerland
Teenagers
Theory of Mind
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Summary:Adolescents' social judgments and emotion attributions about exclusion in three contexts, nationality, gender, and personality, were measured in a sample of 12-and 15-year-old Swiss and non-Swiss adolescents (N = 247). Overall, adolescents judged exclusion based on nationality as less acceptable than exclusion based on gender or personality. Non-Swiss participants, however, who reflected newly immigrated children to Switzerland, viewed exclusion based on nationality as more wrong than did Swiss participants and attributed more positive emotions to the excluder than did Swiss participants. Girls viewed exclusion in nationality and personality contexts as less legitimate than did boys, and they attributed less positive emotions to excluder target in the nationality context than did boys. The findings extend existing research on exclusion by focusing on both emotion attributions as well as judgments and by investigating exclusion in a sample that included a recent immigrant group.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01705.x