How children with facial differences are perceived by non-affected children and adolescents: Perceiver effects on stereotypical attitudes

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Ornella Masnari ; Clemens Schiestl ; Lisa Weibel ; Franziska Wuttke ; Markus A. L ; olt
• 关键词：Facial difference ; Disfigurement ; Children ; Adolescents ; Social perception ; Attitudes ; Stigma
• 刊名：Body Image
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：September, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：10
• 期：4
• 页码：515-523
• 全文大小：586 K

文摘

Children with a facial difference are presumed to be at risk of social stigmatization. The purposes of this study were twofold: (1) to assess the effect of facial differences on social perceptions by unaffected children and adolescents; and (2) to identify perceiver characteristics that predict stereotypical attitudes toward facial differences. Participants were 344 non-affected children and adolescents, ages 8-17 years. Participants rated digitally altered images of 12 children depicted either with or without a facial difference. Results show that participants attributed less favorable characteristics to children with a facial difference than to those without. Moreover, participants reported less willingness to interact with or befriend a child with a facial difference. Significant predictors of low discriminative attitudes were older participant age and previous contact with someone with a facial difference. Our data call attention to the need for public education programs targeted at reducing negative attitudes toward facial differences.