RESEARCH REPORT Cross-cultural Evaluation of Ethnic Perspective-Taking Ability: An Exploratory Investigation With U.S. Latino and Guatemalan Ladino Children STEPHEN M. QU1NTANA University of Wisconsin—Madison VERONICA C. YBARRA University of Texas at Austin PILAR GONZALEZ-DOUPE University of Wisconsin—Madison YET1LU DE BAESSA Universidad del Valle Children's development of ethnic perspective-taking ability (EPTA) was evaluated across 2 samples. It was hypothesized that the EPTA construct would be related to ethnic cog- nitions (e.g., ethnic knowledge, ethnic self-identification) and nonethnic cognition (i.e., social cognition) and that there would be variance in the EPTA construct distinct from a closely related form of social perspective-taking ability (SPTA). In Sample I, 2nd- and 6th-grade Latino children (i.e., children of Mexican descent in the United Stales) were administered interview measures of EPTA and SPTA and a questionnaire assess- ment of ethnic knowledge. The participants in Sample 2 were Guatemalan Ladinos, who are Spanish-speaking children generally of European descent and who represent a numerical minority (10%) in the region (Quiche) of Guatemala sampled but whose • Stephen M. Quintana, Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin-—Madison; Veronica C. Ybarra, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin; Pilar Gonzalez-Doupe, Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Yetilu de Baessa, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala City, Guatemala. We acknowledge support for this project from The Ford Foundation, The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at the University of Texas at Austin, the Society for the Psychological Study of So- cial Issues, and the United Nations Children's Fund. The participants in Sample 1 were drawn from a sample that was included in a study reported in Quintana and Vera (1999). Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Stephen M. Quintana, 321 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wis- consin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Electronic mail may be sent to Quintana@education.wisc.edu. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Copyright 2000 by the Educational Publishing Foundation Vol. 6, No. 4, 334-351 1099-9809/00/15.00 DOI; 10.1037//1099-9809.6.4.334 334 This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.