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Peer reviewedJennings, Sally A. – Child Development, 1975
This study investigated whether (a) awareness of sex typing in literature exists in preschool children; (b) children express sex role character preferences; and (c) their recall was affected by reversed sex roles. (ED)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Preschool Children, Recall (Psychology), Role Models
Feldstein, Jerome H. – 1978
The likelihood that females designate persons of the opposite sex as models more often than do males was investigated. Subjects, 61 boys and 64 girls from the sixth grade, plus 52 males and 83 female college students, indicated which other person, past or present, they would most like to be. Approximately 25% of females designated male models…
Descriptors: Role Models, Role Perception, Selection, Sex Differences
Download full textGarrett, Candace S. – 1973
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of modeling on sex-role development in first-grade children. It was hypothesized that when male-female pairs of children observed a male-female pair of models each child would probably shift his sex-role behavior toward that of the like-sex model. Sixty children served as subjects. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Models
Holman, Thomas B. – 1981
Social scientists have been studying marriage for several decades and have identified many factors related to the quality of marriage. A longitudinal study of 57 engaged couples was conducted while they were college students and after they were married to test parts of Lewis and Spainer's recently proposed theory of marital quality. It was…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Longitudinal Studies
Kinsell-Rainey, Lynn W. – 1972
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…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Identification (Psychology), Incidental Learning, Play
Peer reviewedKatz, Phyllis A. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1979
This article explores some of the major influences affecting the development of female sex-role identity and the psychological and social consequences of this deveopment during childhood and adolescence. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Environmental Influences, Females, Identification (Psychology)
Kummerow, Kay Louise – 1974
This study investigated children's perceptions of sex roles as they are portrayed in traditional and nontraditional children's stories. Subjects were 60 white, middle-class, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children. Tape-recorded stories and questions (investigator-designed) specifically examined: (1) distinction of mother and father roles in parallel…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Characterization, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature
McGuigan, Dorothy Gies, Ed. – 1973
This collection of papers reflects varied aspects of the female condition. Each documents a perspective on that condition: "Woman as Artistic Innovator" comments on female choreographers; "City Women and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century France" explores the impact of the Reformation on one particular group of women; "Women and the Jural…
Descriptors: Artists, Biographies, Dance, Females
Ockerman-Garza, Janet; And Others – 1982
The relationship among key social/psychological variables (self-esteem, locus of control, social isolation, perceptions of role models) and achievement among migrant children was examined, using December 1980 data obtained from 1,004 seventh grade students (515 males/489 females) from a large school district in Hidalgo County in the Texas Lower…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7
