What is the Project About?

 

Aims

• To examine how children make sense of social rejection by their peers and how this might vary with the ethnic group status of the rejected child and the perpetrator. 

• To reduce peer rejection based on ethnicity through an experimental intervention. 

 

This research project will take place over three years. It comprises three studies.

 

Study 1

The first study examines how 8-, 11-, and 14-year-olds from South Asian, African-Caribbean, and White majority British backgrounds evaluate peer rejection based on each of these ethnic backgrounds.

 

Study 2

The second study examines how 8-, 11-, and 14-year-olds react and think about status differences through an experimental paradigm. 

 

Study 3

The final study is an intervention involving White British and ethnic minority 8-year-old children designed to reduce peer rejection based on ethnicity.