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- Title
INTERRELATIONS OF GENDER SCHEMAS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: ATTITUDES, PREFERENCES, AND SELF-PERCEPTIONS.
- Authors
Signorella, Margaret L; Frieze, Irene Hanson
- Abstract
To test developmental aspects of gender schema theories, girls in grades 2 to 12 were given measures of gender role attitudes, self-perceptions on gender related traits, reported participation in gender related activities, preferred occupation, and adult family preferences. Both children's and adolescents' results showed a multifactor structure. Children's results differed from adolescents' in that children had more measures showing significant age trends, with a general pattern of decreasing stereotyping with age. Children also had stronger associations among diverse measures than did adolescents. Results were consistent with both multifactorial and cognitive-developmental approaches to the development of gender schemas, and provided limited support for adolescent gender intensification hypotheses.
- Subjects
GENDER identity; PERSON schemas; TEENAGE girls; GIRLS; BODY image in adolescence; BODY image in children
- Publication
Social Behavior & Personality: an international journal, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 7, p941
- ISSN
0301-2212
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2224/sbp.2008.36.7.941