Social Behavior
Conditions
Brief summary
The study will assess if toddlers show differences in stranger wariness according to race, temperament, social network diversity, and neighborhood diversity.
Detailed description
This study is investigating 13- to 24-month-old toddlers' reactions to meeting new people from familiar and unfamiliar racial backgrounds! Participation involves a 1-hour one-time visit to the researcher's lab, located on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The study itself will take about 20 minutes, but will ask for a 1-hour visit to make sure child participants feel comfortable in the new space. The study will video record as child participants interact with two adults, who will play with the child and offer toys. Parent participants will also be asked to complete two surveys, one demographic survey and one social network survey, so that investigators can better understand how the people children see in their daily lives relate to how participants react to strangers from different racial backgrounds.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALChildren's stranger wariness response to strangers
Children will see two strangers, one from a familiar racial background and one from an unfamiliar racial background. Familiar race stranger will be from the same racial background as the child's caregiver and unfamiliar race stranger will not.
Sponsors
New York University
University of Maryland, College Park
University of California Santa Cruz
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
13 Months to 24 Months
Inclusion criteria
* typically developing * age 13-24 months
Exclusion criteria
\- any known developmental delays
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Social Wariness | Through study completion, an average of 10 years | children's social wariness as assessed by the time that the child first vocalized, touched the stranger, and the duration of time that the child stayed near their parent in seconds standardized and averaged to create a composite score. |
| Social Preference | Through study completion, an average of 10 years | Social preference will be coded by observing toddler behavior and assigning the following codes: 1 = did not take the toy from either stranger, 2 = took toy from familiar race stranger, 3 = took toy from unfamiliar race stranger, 4 = took toy or played with both strangers simultaneously. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactSeaera Juarez, BS
Outcome results
None listed