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Sex-role development in young children: Relationships to behavioral and attitudinal measures of parental gender schemas
- Date Issued:
- 1993
- Summary:
- 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, 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.
Title: | Sex-role development in young children: Relationships to behavioral and attitudinal measures of parental gender schemas. |
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Name(s): |
Morgan, Amy Kathryn Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor Perry, Louise C., Thesis Advisor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1993 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 77 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | 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, 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. | |
Identifier: | 14924 (digitool), FADT14924 (IID), fau:11706 (fedora) | |
Note(s): | Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1993. | |
Subject(s): |
Sex role in children Parental influences--Sexual behavior Schemas (Psychology) |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |