TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Exclusion
T2 - The Interplay of Group Goals and Individual Characteristics
AU - Richardson, Cameron B.
AU - Hitti, Aline
AU - Mulvey, Kelly Lynn
AU - Killen, Melanie
N1 - Funding Information:
Melanie Killen , Ph.D., is Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice and Group Identity (2011) with Adam Rutland, co-editor of Social Development in Childhood and Adolescence: A Contemporary Reader (2011) with Robert Coplan, and serves as the Editor of the Handbook on Moral Development (2006, 2013) with Judith Smetana. She is Associate Editor at Child Development, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for her research on social exclusion, moral reasoning, and intergroup attitudes.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was funded by a Support Program for Advancing Research and Collaboration (SPARC) grant from the University of Maryland’s College of Education. The authors wish to acknowledge the thoughtful contributions of the research assistants who supported this project. The research assistants involved in different stages of this project include: Megan Runion, Jayme Proctor-stein, Caprice Retterer, Naomi Heilweil, Lauren Rudin, Jamie Ott, Kaye Schacter, and Rachel Hoffman.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Past research has shown that adolescents justify social exclusion based on concerns for group functioning, and yet, to date, no study has evaluated whether group functioning justifications shift or remain stable across different exclusion contexts. In this study, we systematically manipulated exclusion context (i.e., competitive or noncompetitive soccer groups) and individual characteristics of the target of exclusion to test the nature of the interaction between these factors during exclusion judgments. Adolescents' (N = 201; 61 % Female) exclusion judgments differed across contexts only when an individual's ability was under consideration. Intergroup (i.e., gender, nationality) and interpersonal (i.e., aggression, shyness) characteristics overwhelmed contextual considerations. Results indicate the complexity of factors weighed by adolescents when making exclusion judgments, and suggest the need for extension of the present findings to understand more fully the interaction between the context of exclusion and individual characteristics in exclusion judgments.
AB - Past research has shown that adolescents justify social exclusion based on concerns for group functioning, and yet, to date, no study has evaluated whether group functioning justifications shift or remain stable across different exclusion contexts. In this study, we systematically manipulated exclusion context (i.e., competitive or noncompetitive soccer groups) and individual characteristics of the target of exclusion to test the nature of the interaction between these factors during exclusion judgments. Adolescents' (N = 201; 61 % Female) exclusion judgments differed across contexts only when an individual's ability was under consideration. Intergroup (i.e., gender, nationality) and interpersonal (i.e., aggression, shyness) characteristics overwhelmed contextual considerations. Results indicate the complexity of factors weighed by adolescents when making exclusion judgments, and suggest the need for extension of the present findings to understand more fully the interaction between the context of exclusion and individual characteristics in exclusion judgments.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10964-013-9967-8
DO - 10.1007/s10964-013-9967-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 23744453
AN - SCOPUS:84903712103
SN - 0047-2891
VL - 43
SP - 1281
EP - 1294
JO - Journal of youth and adolescence
JF - Journal of youth and adolescence
IS - 8
ER -
