- Title
Nicknames as sex-role stereotypes.
- Authors
de Klerk, Vivian; Bosch, Barbara
- Abstract
Relates nickname usage and attitudes to such special names among South African adolescents from mixed socioeconomic backgrounds to their differences in gender. Nickname users and coiners of nicknames; Reasons for nicknames and nickname usage; Awareness of and attitudes to nicknames; Morphological processes in the derivation of nicknames.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; NICKNAMES; GENDER differences (Psychology) in adolescence; TEENAGERS
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1996, Vol 35, Issue 9-10, p525
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/BF01548251
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