Diversity and Children’s Empathy: The Mediating Role of Parent’s Prejudice
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.119How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- diversity, empathy, prejudice
- Abstract
The high cases of aggressive behavior in the Indonesian primary school indicate the low empathy of children. One of the factors that influence empathy development is the social environment. Furthermore, Indonesian society is very diverse as the social environment of children. Therefore, this study aim was to see the relationship between diversity and child’s empathy. Several previous studies provided evidence of a correlation between diversity and prejudice. Some studies also proposed that prejudice attitude of children and parent predicts each other. Additionally, prior researches proved the correlation between prejudice and empathy. Therefore, this study also intended to investigate the mediating role of parent’s prejudice attitude on the relationship between diversity and child’s empathy. Participants of this research were 233 pairs of parent and child in Jakarta. We measured the variables using the adapted Kids’ Empathy Development Scale, the adaptation of blatant prejudice scale, and the scale of opportunities for contact. This study showed that the direct effect of diversity on children empathy was not statistically significant, but the parent’s prejudice attitude confirmed to mediate the relationship. Our findings indicate that diversity does not directly affect children’s empathy, but diversity influences the parents’ prejudice attitude which then affects the children’s empathy.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shani Safarah Rohmah AU - Rose Mini Agoes Salim PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/07 TI - Diversity and Children’s Empathy: The Mediating Role of Parent’s Prejudice BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Psychology and Pedagogy - "Diversity in Education" (ICEPP 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 224 EP - 228 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.119 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.119 ID - Rohmah2020 ER -