The primary purpose of this study was to explore preschool
aged children's sex-role preferences as they relate to both cultural
and parental stereotypes of sex roles.
Forty-seven children of preschool age and their parents acted
as subjects for this study. All children were enrolled in preschool
programs established by the...
The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationships
between the variables of sex, age, sibling status, age relationship
of sibling, age spacing between siblings and sex-role preference among
preschool-aged children.
Seventy-one children, 32 boys and 39 girls, ranging in ages
from two-years-eleven-months to five-years-seven-months, served
as subjects....
This study explored the relationship between sex, age, intelligence,
creativity and sex-role preference among preschool-aged
children. Thirty-nine Caucasian children, 18 boys and 21 girls,
ranging in ages from three years-five months to five years-two months
acted as subjects for this study, All subjects came from intact
families, predominantly of the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between
creativity and independent or autonomous behavior among preschoolaged
children.
Forty children, 19 boys and 21 girls, with a mean age of 4 years-
1 month, and a mean I.Q. of 113, acted as subjects for this study. All
children...
The purpose of this study was the development of the Sex Role
Learning Index (SERLI), a picture choice instrument for assessing the
concepts of sex role discrimination, preference, and confirmation in
young children. The SERLI consists of 60 black-and-white line drawings
depicting common objects, child activities and adult activities
and...
The present experiment examined children's memory for stereotypic
and non-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material.
Twenty-four male and twenty-four female fifth grade subjects read
two short stories, each depicting a male and female character who
exhibited an equal number of masculine and feminine traits and
behaviors. Results of...
Relationships between moral judgment and cognitive reasoning
among 102 six-, nine-, and twelve- year -old boys and girls from predominantly
middle class backgrounds were studied. Findings obtained
supported Gutkin's (1972) formulation of a four stage approach toward
describing the transitional shift in children's moral judgments from
heteronomous to autonomous thought....
The awareness of sex-trait stereotypes among 120, eight-year-old children from intact families in both rural and urban areas in Korea were investigated. The rural sample included 20 boys and 20 girls attending the Damyang-Dong Primary School in Damyang-Eup, Korea. These subjects came primarily from farm families of the upper-lower and...
A review of observational coding systems indicated the need for an
instrument which is easy to learn and implement in applied settings,
and which can be applied to diverse populations of disturbed children.
A two phase study was conducted to evaluate the reliability and validity
of observational ratings derived from...