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Do children want skinny friends? The role of 'weight' in children's friendship preferences and inter-group attitudes
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Palmer, Sally B. Rutland, Adam |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | This study examined developmental attitudes towards underweight stimuli using two different measures. Children aged 5 - 11 firstly attributed positive and negative traits to images of underweight, averageweight and overweight stimuli. A second measure investigated picture preference of the same stimuli for 3 different contexts (Total N=151). The trait attribution task revealed that weight bias overrode gender bias amongst female participants of all ages; girls significantly preferred underweight images to average-weight and overweight images. In the picture preference task, preferences for the underweight stimuli were given by both male and female 5 to 7 year olds, when selecting which stimuli they would have as a 'friend' or to 'take home to play'. |
| Starting Page | 698 |
| Ending Page | 707 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 27 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitum.um.es/xmlui/bitstream/10201/26581/1/Do%20children%20want%20skinny%20friends.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
