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- Title
Cross-Sex and Same-Sex Assertive Bids in a Cooperative Group Task.
- Authors
Sgan, Mabel L.; Pickert, Sarah M.
- Abstract
This study examined assertive bids of grade-school children engaged in a cooperative task. Within each of 3 grade levels (K, 1, 3), 12 mixed-sex triads were randomly formed. Utilizing verbal indices of assertiveness, statistically significant differences were found for cross-sex and same-sex attempts, by grade level and triadic composition. The results for K and grade 1 support previous research which indicated that boys made more assertive bids than girls and attempted primarily to direct other boys. However, with age, girls showed increasing verbal assertiveness toward boys as well as toward other girls and, by grade 3, their overall assertive bids equaled that of boys.
- Subjects
COOPERATIVENESS; ASSERTIVENESS (Psychology); ASSERTIVENESS in children; PERSONALITY; SAME-sex relationships; GENDER differences (Psychology)
- Publication
Child Development, 1980, Vol 51, Issue 3, p928
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1129490