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Shepherd, Valerie – Language & Communication, 1995
Examines the component parts of personal narrative, the sort of language resources they consist of, and the respective roles they can play in turning sense into experience. People share in the making of their stories, evaluating them creatively with the help of their hearers. To survive in a complex world of meanings, a narrator must constantly…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Discourse Analysis, Mythology, Personal Narratives
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De Lisi, Richard; Gallagher, Ann M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Investigated the understanding of gender stability on the part of Argentinean children aged three to nine years. Children were asked to explain effects of time, psychological trait, situation, and physical attribute transformations on their own gender and the gender of another child of same sex and one of opposite sex. Judgments of gender…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Role Perception
Long, Maribeth – 1994
Research over the past 25 years indicates that children's persistent stereotyping of career roles influences their career choices. The following eight independent variables are examined so as to understand secondary school students' occupational sex-role stereotyping (OSRS): (1) gender; (2) socioeconomic status of the parents; (3) mother's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Occupational Aspiration, Occupations, Role Perception
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Scanzoni, John – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1976
Samples of college students are compared in terms of gender role norms and relationships with particular focus on birth intentions. It was found that over time both men and women have become less sex role traditional and that these measures of sex role norms do predict birth intentions. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Contraception, Correlation
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Gump, Janice Porter – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
An assessment of the sex-role attitudes of 77 black college women and 40 white college women refuted the characterization of the black woman as matriarchal and the white woman as home centered and submissive. Black women were more likely to define their identity with respect to the roles of wife and mother. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Black Stereotypes, Black Students, Females
Mukhopadhyay, Carol Chapnick – 1982
The degree to which spouses actually share household tasks and income production is compared to their ideological commitment to sex role equity. Data were obtained from long-term intensive fieldwork with 19 Los Angeles nurses and their 18 families and from the researcher's doctoral dissertation. All data on family performance patterns indicate a…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Females, Home Management, Income
Valdez, Roberta L. – 1985
A differentiation between two types of self-blame, behavioral and characterological, has been suggested. Behavioral self-blame is control-related and pertains to attributions made to one's behavior, while characterological self-blame is esteem-related and involves attributions made to one's character. To assess the efficacy of separating the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Battered Women, Behavior, Family Violence
Voss, Jacqueline H.; Skinner, Denise A. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1975
Married and single female college students were compared in their perceptions of self, ideal woman, and man's ideal woman. Perceptions of female sex-role held by college women in 1969 and 1973 were also compared. Differences were found between the 1969 and 1973 groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Females
Koenigsberg, Ellen – 1982
The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) is designed to measure masculinity and femininity independently. It is based on the dualistic, as opposed to the bipolar, nature of masculinity and femininity. The development of measures for sex role research has relied on empirical techniques; item selection has been based on respondents' stereotyped conceptions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Factor Structure, Femininity, Higher Education
Millet, June E.; Feuerhahn, Susan – 1978
The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) was administered to 300 undergraduate college students over a three year period. Results indicated a consistent trend toward scores that were more "androgynous" for the male subjects and more "feminine" for the female subjects. These findings were questioned with respect to the social impact of…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Attitude Change, Occupations, Personality
Ross, F. Susan Ackerman; Sochat, Nancy – 1979
To assess patient preferences for male as opposed to female physicians, 120 adults were asked to complete a questionnaire. The results indicated that preference for male versus female physicians was influenced by three factors: gender of respondent, nature of the clinical complaint, and specified physician attributes. Overall, the responses…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Interpersonal Relationship, Medical Services
Kaminski, Donna M.; Erickson, Edsel – 1979
Presented is a study reporting the findings relevant to the amount of variation of eleventh- and twelfth-grade students in taking science courses. The findings are reported in terms of ability level (I.Q. scores), socio-economic status (father's occupation), eighth-grade academic grade-point average, and specific science grade in the eighth grade.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Females, Role Perception
Dalessio, Anthony; And Others – 1980
Much research on sex roles and their correlates characteristically has been performed in laboratory settings with a college student sample. Job analysis interviews were conducted to extend androgyny research to the work setting. Supervisory performance ratings of job activities and Bem Sex-Role Inventory data were obtained for 135 female nurses. A…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavior Patterns, Identification (Psychology), Job Performance
Powell, Gary N.; Butterfield, R. Anthony – 1977
Studies which have investigated males' and females' attitudes and behavior in organizations have yielded apparently contradictory results. In some studies, individuals have followed traditional sex-role stereotypes; in others, they have not. A proposed explanation for these inconsistencies is that sex-role identification is a more important…
Descriptors: Administrators, Androgyny, Behavior Patterns, Identification (Psychology)
Edwards, Richard; Gronbeck, Bruce E. – 1975
This document lists 189 educational, instructional, and documentary films treating women's roles, problems, and communication strategies. The films are classified by substance and topics: beauty ethic: presentations and examinations; birth control, unwanted pregnancy, and abortion; coping with a male oriented society; dating and marriage;…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Documentaries, Film Study, Filmographies
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