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- Title
Sex-Role Attitudes: A Comparison of Sex-Race Groups.
- Authors
Rao, V. V. Prakasa; Rao, V. Nandini
- Abstract
This study investigated the differences in the three dimensions of sex-role attitudes among four sex-race groups and also the ability of sex and race jointly to condition the effects of background characteristics on these attitudes. In a sample of 409 college students significant differences were found on all three dimensions of sex-role attitudes between the two sex groups, but not between the two racial groups, implying that gender is the most significant variable in eliciting differences in sex-role attitudes. Step wise multiple regression analysis did not find a single common predictor to explain the variance in the wife role, the mother role, and the father role for the four sex-race group models. Some predictors were found in common in the four models explaining the variance in three dimensions of sex-role attitudes when the effects of sex and race were examined separately. However, the interaction of race and sex in conditioning the effect of background variables on the sex-role attitudes was quite different for each of the four sex-race subsamples.
- Subjects
GENDER role; ATTITUDE (Psychology); WOMEN'S roles; COLLEGE students; GENDER differences (Psychology); SOCIAL role; REGRESSION analysis; STATISTICAL correlation; ANALYSIS of variance
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1985, Vol 12, Issue 9-10, p939
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00288096