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- Title
Gender Role and Person-Perception Accuracy.
- Authors
Card, Alison L.; Jackson, Linda A.; Stollak, Gary E.; Ialongo, Nicholas S.
- Abstract
The relationship between gender role and person-perception accuracy was examined in this research. Young adults who were masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated in their gender role interacted with a child, and with a peer, in role-playing situations that focused on parenting and marital behaviors. The accuracy with which subjects predicted the child's perception of them, and the accuracy with which they perceived the interpersonal traits of the peer, were assessed. The results indicated that androgynous subjects were clearly superior in predicting the child's perceptions of them, but were no better than the other gender-role groups in terms of peer perceptions. Rather, females were more accurate than males in perceptions of gender-related traits. Implications of this research for the relationship between gender role and parenting behavior, and directions for future research that examines person-perception accuracy, are discussed.
- Subjects
GENDER role; SELF-perception; GENDER identity; ANDROGYNY (Psychology); YOUNG adult psychology; SELF-esteem in young adults; PEER relations; SOCIAL perception; PARENTING
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1986, Vol 15, Issue 3-4, p159
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00287481