# DEVELOPMENT OF GENDER AND RACE STEREOTYPES IN CHILDREN

> **NIH NIH R01** · INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIAL PROBLEM · 1994 · $181,581

## Abstract

The research described in this proposal is directed towards the dual
issues of how gender and race schemas develop in preschool children and
how this development has been affected by earlier behavior and
socialization experiences.  A longitudinal study is proposed that will
assess Euro-American and African-American children and their families,
beginning when the children age 4 1/2 - 5 until they are 6.  The proposed
study is a follow-up of an almost completed longitudinal study that began
with these same families when their children were 6 months of age.  Thus,
the proposed data collection, combined with the earlier one, will span
the entire developmental range from infancy through formal school
entrance, an age period that is pivotal in the formation of race and
gender learning.  This data set will be unique because the longitudinal
sample is multiethnic and socioeconomically diverse, because both gender
and race schemas are examined in the same children, and because it
permits investigation of how learning in the infancy and toddler periods
relates to subsequent preschool attitudes and behaviors.  In addition to
this sample, 60 cross-sectional cohort African-American and Euro-American
children (and their families) will be tested at 3, and 60 at 6 years of
age, in order to assess possible repeated-testing effects in the
longitudinal sample.

A multidimensional schematic model is proposed that differentiates four
components of gender- and race-schemas, and relates them to a variety of
familial variables.  Based upon the model, three general issues will be
examined: (1) understanding how the multiple components of gender- and
related learning are acquired and change over the first 6 years of life;
(2) delineating similarities, differences and consequences of race- and
gender-schemas, and (3) assessing the relation of early developmental
indicators, socialization experiences, and family structure variables to
preschoolers' gender and racial attitudes.

Because gender and race categories are both central to social
development, the proposed data collection will have important theoretical
and pragmatic implications for understanding self-identify development,
attitudes and future intergroup relations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2198705
- **Project number:** 5R01HD022929-06
- **Recipient organization:** INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIAL PROBLEM
- **Principal Investigator:** PHYLLIS A KATZ
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1994
- **Award amount:** $181,581
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1993-07-27 → 1997-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2198705

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2198705, DEVELOPMENT OF GENDER AND RACE STEREOTYPES IN CHILDREN (5R01HD022929-06). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2198705. Licensed CC0.

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