With the emergence of a new generation of strong and empowered female student leaders on college campuses, a special type of female leader, the Alpha Female, has developed. This study examines the essence of having an Alpha Female identity for 13 undergraduate women at a Midwestern university. Extensive interviews were conducted; transcripts were…

The authors discuss what it means to be a boy growing up in our society. They examine ways of responding to boys more meaningfully and explore what they consider are better messages for boys; for example, boys should be taught that negotiating and discussing are as appropriate means of protecting their rights as is fighting. (EK)

A group of 75 grade-school children showed a significant sex difference in deprivation/enhancement fantasy patterns indicating that these patterns meaningfully reflect issues of gender identity. (Author/WY)

This article examines the socialization and determination of professional self-concept of graduate teaching assistants. Role enactment, exposure to the socialization context, and perceived success in professional tasks are determined as important elements in the development of a professional self-concept. (DE)

A comparative analysis is presented on the differences between student teachers and student nurses regarding the way in which they perceive their roles. It is hypothesized that there is a difference in the pace of occupational socialization which ranges from "instant" (acting and feeling as a professional from the beginning), "incremental" (seeing…

A teacher education program was developed to enable preservice teachers to discuss and role-play the kinds of behavior associated with being a classroom teacher. This evalution report examines the curriculum design and trialing procedures, and reports the findings from experimental use of the curriculum in four institutions. (Author/BW)

In research on sex role attitudes, career choices, and considered appropriateness of men and women participating in 14 sex-stereotyped occupations, children demonstrated nonstereotypic attitudes toward the 14 occupations, chose traditional careers (those dominated by the subject's sex) for themselves, and gave stereotypic reasons for preferring…

Sixty-four university art students identified themselves as "art student,""marginal," or "professional artist" and provided information on age, sex, art and academic experiences, and parental factors. Consistent with the professionalization model of occupational socialization, all these factors, except parents and years of formal art training,…

This report describes the results (to date) of an ongoing exploratory study of the impact of home day caregivers on the children in their care with specific attention to the nature of the child-caregiver interaction. From in-depth interviews with the caregivers and naturalistic observation, the one factor which emerged as most salient in terms of…

The development of person perception or understanding of self and others is the theme of this psychology textbook. An extensive review of research on impression formation is followed by a thorough description of a study of person perception in children. Variables such as age, sex, and intelligence are studied in terms of their relationship to the…

A study was conducted to investigate whether: (1) children's preferences for activities vary as a function of the cultural stereotypes to which they are exposed; (2) children's perception of appropriate activities for females and males vary as a function of the cultural stereotypes to which they are exposed; and (3) the degree of differences…

The content and process of incidental learning of sex role related characteristics through play behavior was explored in a study of more than 6000 toys sold by Sears, Roebuck & Company between 1900 and 1970, as represented in their mail order catalogs. Sixty percent of all toys were sex typed by Sears. The nature of the play behavior…

In this paper, the structure and the use of language are postulated as socializing agents influencing sex-role learning in three major ways: (1) sex differences occur in language use and parallel sex-role stereotypes; (2) the language that is addressed to children is usually the language of socialization which instructs the child what to do,…