The present study compared the sex role learning of preschool
girls from families with "traditional" and "nontraditional" (egalitarian)
attitudes toward women's roles on measures of sex role knowledge and
preference. Forty-eight four and five year old girls from intact,
middle class families served as subjects. Their parents' attitudes
toward women's...
This study examined the relative contribution of parental warmth,
non-authoritarianism, and approval of sex-typed behavior to children's
sex role knowledge and preference. Subjects were 45 married
couples, and their 25 male and 20 female preschool children. Parental
attitudes toward child-rearing and sex role behavior were assessed
with the Parent Attitude...
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of
three methods of changing vocational educators' sex-role perceptions
of themselves and their sex-role perceptions of males and females to
a more androgynous state. The hypotheses tested were: (1) there
is no difference in sex -role...
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...
National statistics indicate substantially higher rates of divorce
in doctoral student households where the female, rather than the male, is
the degree candidate. This research was designed to examine the married
female's experiences and to identify factors which possibly contribute
to the differential divorce statistics for males and females.
The...
The two major purposes of this study were: (1) to test the
assumption that the IT Scale for Children (standard-ITSC) can be used
as a measure of both appropriate sex role discrimination and sex role
preference with preschool aged children, and (2) to extend previous
studies in these areas by...
This study examined the relationship and strength of association
of the two independent variables of gender (male, female) and perceived
sex role identity (masculine, androgynous, feminine, and
undifferentiated) on the leadership style, leadership range (number of
back-up styles), and leadership adaptability (effectiveness) of nonforeign
graduate students at a Land Grant...
The first purpose of this study was to determine if the
effects of experiencing an assertiveness treatment group
influenced the perceived attitudes toward sex roles in
alcoholic women in aftercare. It was expected that
alcoholic women in aftercare who had received an
assertiveness group intervention, with an emphasis on
awareness...
In the past, a major emphasis of child development
research and theory building has been the study of
acquisition of sex role learning. Today, an additional
dimension is seen in the study of the effect of sex role
stereotypy on self-concept. As a result of the research in
this area,...
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...