The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of native chilldren's multicultural experiences, intercultural sensitivity and their parents's stereotype on children's stereotype toward multicultural group in Korea. Children's stereotypic per...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of native chilldren's multicultural experiences, intercultural sensitivity and their parents's stereotype on children's stereotype toward multicultural group in Korea. Children's stereotypic perception toward multiculrural family is known to aggravate the condition in which many descendants of multicultural family in our country face adaptive problems.
For this study, cross-sectional data collected from 143 male and female children (aged 12-13 years), 116 mothers, and 90 fathers were used to find out the determinants of children's stereotypic perception toward multiculrural group. Information on children's intercultural sensitivity, multicultural experiences, stereotype toward multucultural family, and parents' intercultural sensitivity, stereotype toward multicultural family were collected through self-reported questionnaires. Then, multiple regression analyses were undertaken.
According to the results, the most factor which affects native children's stereotype toward multicultural group is child's intercultural sensitivity(B= -.535, p<.05). And indirect media-mediated multicultural experience(B= -.263, p<.05) and the stereotypes of his/her father (B= .202, p<.05) were influential factors. Especially, children's indirect media-mediated multicultural experience was found to have greater influence on children's stereotype than direct multicultural experiences. The correlation between mother's stereotype and father's one is high. The effects of father's stereotype on child's stereotype toward multicultural group had greater than mother's one on that. According to gender, there're no significant differences on child's stereotypes toward multicultural group.
The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the multicultural family children's adaptive problems.