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Peer reviewedShinar, Eva H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
This study examined the nature of sex stereotypes of occupations as they exist among college students today. The results indicate that sexual stereotypes of occupations are clearly defined and held in agreement by both college men and college women. (Author)
Descriptors: Bias, Career Choice, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBarnett, Rosalind C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
This research studied sex differences and age trends in the relationship of occupational preferences and aversions and occupational prestige. The relationships between preference and prestige were positive and stronger for the males than for the females. Males learn to prefer prestigious occupations; females learn to avoid them. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Aspiration, Attitudes
Peer reviewedWolk, Stephen; Kurtz, John – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Data were analyzed from a sample of elderly males and females to ascertain level of expectancy for control as well as the relationship between internal control and adaptive behavior. Assessments were made with the Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, and indices of developmental adjustment, active involvement, and emotional adaptation.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Theories, Expectation, Individual Development
Download full textBrehony, Kathleen A.; Geller, E. Scott – 1977
The decisions and attitudes of sex-stereotyped and androgynous individuals (as defined by the Bem Sex Role Inventory) were compared in a social conformity paradigm and on two measures of locus of control. The conformity paradigm consisted of 160 trials in which subjects predicted one of two possible stimuli after hearing predictions of two other…
Descriptors: Androgyny, College Students, Conformity, Females
McCutcheon, Lynn E.; Fichter, Eugene H. – 1977
Male (N=80) and female (N=80) subjects who were matched for age and GPA were presented with either a competently or incompetently worded version of a 750-word excerpt from a journal article. The article was attributed to either Joan or John Maxwell. Subjects rated each article on scales for: professional competence of the author; writing style;…
Descriptors: Bias, College Students, Females, Males
Farkas, Gary M.; Tharp, Roland G. – 1978
Several factors thought to influence the representativeness of behavioral assessment data were examined in an analogue study employing a multifactorial design. Systematic and unsystematic methods of observing group behavior were investigated using 18 male and 18 female observers. Additionally, valence properties of the observed behaviors were…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Expectation, Group Behavior
Clance, Pauline Rose; Dawson, Flo B. – 1974
Using play constructions as a projective technique of investigation, Erik Erikson (1951) concluded from his observation of preadolescents that, during this developmental period, play constructions are largely determined by psychosexual differences. Erikson suggested that only observation of subjects in a younger and older developmental period…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Developmental Stages, Maturation
Jackson, Jeffrey M.; And Others – 1978
This experiment was designed to test the motivation to perform a task for males and females in mixed and same-sex groups. Individuals in homogeneous groups (four males or four females) or heterogeneous groups (two males and two females) clapped their hands alone, in pairs and in foursomes. People exerted more effort alone than in groups,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Group Behavior, Group Norms, Individual Characteristics
Christ, Susann – 1977
The attitudes of community college students toward premarital sexual relationships were investigated. Subjects were 83 Black college men and women. A 30-item questionnaire was administered to each subject. Results indicated that: (1) females reported less frequent occurrence of sexual relations than males; (2) neither sex reported a high incidence…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Marriage
Page, Richard H.; Orton, Julie – 1977
In a 1973 study Morgan and Mausner administered the second half of the Hidden Figures Test to pairs of high school students who had scored in either the upper or lower quartile on the first half of the test. High-scoring females showed a significant tendency to lower their scores when working with a low-scoring male partner. This tendency was not…
Descriptors: Females, High School Seniors, High School Students, Males
Frieze, Irene H.; McHugh, Maureen C. – 1977
Alcoholism is becoming an increasingly significant problem for women. At one time, women rarely drank and the female alcoholic was an anomaly. Estimates of the total number of women alcoholics in the United States today are over 900,000. Women now constitute from 20 to 35% of all alcoholics in this country. This paper attempts to gain…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Alcoholism, Attribution Theory
Pellegrini, Robert J.; And Others – 1977
Male and female subjects identified as very attractive or very unattractive worked in an interview-like situation with a listener of the opposite sex who was presented so as to maximize or minimize his or her natural attractiveness. Intimacy of self-disclosure was found to be significantly greater for females than for males, significantly greater…
Descriptors: Disclosure, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship, Physical Characteristics
Feshbach, Norma Deitch; Hoffman, Michael Arthur – 1978
Elementary school boys and girls are highly similar with regards to the events they describe as emotionally arousing fear, sadness, anger, happiness, and pride. One hundred and sixty (160) White, Black, Chicano, and Asian-American boys and girls from kindergarten, second, third, fourth, and sixth grades freely described the situation that most…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Stages, Emotional Experience, Empathy
PROSHANSKY, HAROLD; SMITH, ROBERT – 1967
ATTITUDES AND COGNITIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE NATURE OF WORK WERE STUDIED TO DISCOVER THE INFLUENCE OF SEX, SOCIAL CLASS, RACE, AND INTELLIGENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORK ORIENTATION. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 1,254 TEENAGERS FROM 13 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRES, RATING SCALES, HIGH SCHOOL RECORDS, AND TEAHCER RATINGS PROVIDED…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Factor Analysis, Intelligence
PDF pending restorationRockford, Marcia; Galbraith, Gary G. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between masculinity, feminity, and androgyny and measures of sexual behavior, attitudes and knowledge. Sexual attitudes and knowledge were assessed by use of the Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Test, and sexual behavior was assessed by means of the Sexual Experiences Inventory. Subjects…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Females
