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Title
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Sex-role development in young children: Relationships to behavioral and attitudinal measures of parental gender schemas.
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Creator
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Morgan, Amy Kathryn, Florida Atlantic University, Perry, Louise C.
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Abstract/Description
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Parental influence on their children's sex-role development was examined by assessing strength of parental sex-role stereotyping and comparing the results with similar data gathered previously from their children. Parents' gender-schema flexibility was measured by a computer task which required judgements of the gender-appropriateness of sex-typed occupations under both immediate- and delayed-response conditions. Three paper-and-pencil questionnaires measured parents' sex-typed attributes,...
Show moreParental influence on their children's sex-role development was examined by assessing strength of parental sex-role stereotyping and comparing the results with similar data gathered previously from their children. Parents' gender-schema flexibility was measured by a computer task which required judgements of the gender-appropriateness of sex-typed occupations under both immediate- and delayed-response conditions. Three paper-and-pencil questionnaires measured parents' sex-typed attributes, beliefs, and socialization practices. Evidence was obtained for the value of using an immediate-response requirement in future research. Parents gave significantly more sex-stereotyped responses in the immediate- rather than the delayed-response mode. Parental socialization practices were found to have the most links with their children's strength of sex-typing. Measures which distinguished between parental preference for their child's choice of same-sex items and disapproval of their child's choice of opposite-sex items were particularly sensitive.
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Date Issued
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1993
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14924
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Subject Headings
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Sex role in children, Parental influences--Sexual behavior, Schemas (Psychology)
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Format
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Document (PDF)
