Sex Role Identity and Self-Esteem: A Comparison of Children and Adolescents.

Allgood-Merten, Betty; Stockard, Jean

While data from a sample of fourth-grade children indicate that both self-efficacy (masculinity) and relationality (femininity) are strongly associated with self-esteem for both girls and boys, results from a comparable sample of adolescents aged 14-18 and a subsample of the fourth graders when they were in twelfth grade indicate that only self-efficacy is generally associated with self- esteem. An association between relationality and self-esteem is found in adolescents only for a small, high-achieving, high-SES subset of ‘androgynous’ males.

SELF-esteem in adolescence; SELF-perception in adolescence; GENDER differences (Psychology) in adolescence; GENDER role; BEHAVIORAL assessment of teenagers; ANDROGYNY (Psychology); GENDER identity; ADOLESCENT psychology; SEXUAL psychology

Sex Roles, 1991, Vol 25, Issue 3-4, p129

0360-0025

Academic Journal

10.1007/BF00289850