Conversations on Household Labor Between Children and Their Parents

For 4- to 8- year olds; One child per caretaker may participate (i.e. you may not participate with more than one child)

This study will take place on a Zoom video call with a researcher! Selecting “Schedule a time to participate” will take you to a booking website, where you can select a time and date that works best for you. During the study, you and your child will be shown two videos about two different families doing different activities in the house. You will be asked to discuss together what each member of the family is doing and why. You and your child will then discuss a few questions about how chores are divided in your own family. Finally, your child will be presented with a series of different chores and will be asked to distribute them between two hypothetical parents based on how they usually see the chores distributed and how they think the chores should be distributed between the parents.

Previous research suggests that children’s concepts of fairness are largely influenced by their household experience. We are interested in discovering how children discuss fairness in the context of household labor with their parents and how these conversations may shape their own ideas of fairness in the household (i.e. how conversations about household labor may influence how children choose to divide chores when given the opportunity).

20 minutes

Online participation of this study will be compensated in the form of a $7 Tango gift card sent to your email within 2 weeks as long as they meet the eligibility criteria.

The Eligibility criteria are:
1) Child needs to be in the age range
2) Child needs to be visible
3) Only one gift card is given per child