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Hard battles ahead: A note on the future perspectives of minority children
Author(s) -
Byrnes Deborah A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198210)19:4<513::aid-pits2310190419>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - psychology , contrast (vision) , developmental psychology , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence
As a by‐product of a descriptive study of the invisible children in the classroom, a rather surprising observation is noted on the future perspectives of minority children. When 26 of these forgotten children, as well as their 26 popular peers, selected sociometrically from 383 third through sixth graders, were intensively studied, self‐ anchoring scales revealed an unexpected reversal in the comparison of their future perspectives, the popular children scoring significantly lower than the invisible ones. A closer examination showed that minority children in the popular group recorded a much lower mean rating for the future than the rest, in sharp contrast with the minorities in the invisible group. By their own admission, the popular minority children were anticipating a tougher life and harder battles ahead.