Children's Monetary Evaluations of Body Parts as a Function of Sex, Race, and School Grade
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 107 (2) , 203-207
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1981.9915224
Abstract
Public school children (N = 320) were given a sheet of paper with pictures of seven different body parts and asked to select from a list of numbers a dollar value for each body part. The instructions asked the child to imagine that his or her body had been damaged in an accident. Analysis of variance indicated that males value their bodies more than females. There was an increase in the body evaluations from the third grade to the sixth grade. Black children placed higher values on their bodies than white children did on theirs.Keywords
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