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- Title
The development and correlates of gender role attitudes in African American youth.
- Authors
Lam, Chun Bun; Stanik, Christine; McHale, Susan M.
- Abstract
This research examined the longitudinal trajectories and family correlates of gender role attitudes in African American youth in a sample of 166 sibling pairs residing with their mothers and fathers. Multilevel modelling revealed that (1) girls and boys exhibited significant declines in gender attitude traditionality from ages 9 to 15 that levelled off through age 18, (2) mothers' (but not fathers') gender role attitude traditionality was positively related to youth's attitude traditionality, and (3) within-person variation in mothers' (but not fathers') racial discrimination experiences was negatively related to within-person variation in youth's gender role attitude traditionality. The utility of applying a cultural ecological framework within an ethnic homogenous, accelerated longitudinal design to understand African American family processes, in conjunction with the intersectionality between race and gender, is the focus of the discussion.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BLACK people; ADOLESCENCE; FATHERS; LONGITUDINAL method; MOTHERS; PARENTING; RACISM; GENDER role
- Publication
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2017, Vol 35, Issue 3, p406
- ISSN
0261-510X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjdp.12182