Abstract

ROTH, Eric et al. Ethnic preferences in Bolivian children: On the track of exclusion. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.1, pp.49-60. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2018.1.05.

The present research seeks scientific evidence about ethnic preferences (EP) as an alternative for the study on the development of identity in children below 12 years old. With this purpose, the EP and cognitive development was evaluated in a sample of 388 children of both sexes, 192 boys (49.5%) and 196 women (50.5%) from urban and peri-urban of three cities of Bolivia. It was postulated, according with the multidimensionality of EP that, in addition to the age, the ethnicity of children, their cognitive skills, the social and cultural environment in which they develop (homogeneous-heterogeneous) and the self-recognition with respect to the in-group characteristics, could be factors with important influence in their preferences. The results showed that children do not consolidate their identity before 12 years. However, it became clear that ethnic preferences develop and change from childhood to early adolescence, following a more or less constant pattern associated with the aforementioned variables.

Keywords : Ethnic preferences; Self-recognition; Identity; Bolivia.

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