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Keyes, Susan; Coleman, John – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1983
A study of British adolescents was conducted. Though no sex differences were found for personal adjustment, females experienced more conflict over sex-role issues. Subjects who experienced the highest levels of sex-role conflict also experienced more problems in personal adjustment when they perceived themselves as deficient in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Role Conflict

Pyle, Wilma J. – Theory Into Practice, 1976
Children's literature and school texts have reflected society's relegation of women to inferior, passive roles; while there is now an awareness that stereotypes and sexist terms should be eliminated, there is the danger that overreaction will diminish literary quality. (JD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Feminism, Literary Influences, Role Models

Sampson, S. – Australian Journal of Education, 1976
This discussion is based on data from a recent series of interviews with parents of teenagers. It is examined in relation to the educational objectives of these parents for their children compared with goals set by the Australian Schools Commission and to practices in the home and ideologies and assumptions thus revealed. (Author/TK)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Equal Education, Family Influence

Anthrop, Joseph; Allison, Maria T. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1983
A study of female high school students sought to measure role conflict among females participating in traditionally approved sports--swimming, golf, gymnastics, and tennis--and those involved in sports such as basketball and track. The females gave little evidence of internal role conflict but had experienced external sources of conflict.…
Descriptors: Athletes, Females, High School Students, High Schools

Harrison, Betty G.; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1981
Study of 91 White females in a southern metropolitan area tested relationship between locus of control and self-esteem and traditional/nontraditional behavior. Indicated women tending toward internality and high self-esteem exhibit nontraditional behaviors, and contrary to expectation, women tending toward externality and low self-esteem were also…
Descriptors: Conformity, Economic Factors, Family Attitudes, Females

Cook, Alicia S.; And Others – Family Relations, 1982
Compared undergraduate women students' attitudes during 1972 and 1979. When compared to the 1972 sample, the 1979 sample desired fewer children, was more accepting of nonparenting decisions, expressed more uncertainty regarding desire for parenting as a factor in selection of a mate, and appeared less concerned about overpopulation. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Females

Bray, James H.; Howard, George S. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1980
The relationships between teacher and student sex and sex role orientations and student ratings of course and instructor were studied. Androgynous teachers received higher evaluations than masculine or feminine counterparts. A teacher sex with student sex interaction was found as was a teacher sex with teacher sex role interaction. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Higher Education, Role Perception, Sex Differences

Altman, Sydney L.; Grossman, Frances K. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1977
Maternal employment, perceived maternal satisfaction and goodness of mothering, and sex role conceptions were studied as they relate to future life plans of college senior women (N=51). Daughters of working mothers scored higher on career orientation than did daughters of nonworking mothers. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Students, Employed Women, Females

Larson, Mary Strom – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1996
Investigated the contribution of daytime television soap operas to the perception of the roles of single mothers. Findings reveal there is a perception that single mothers have good jobs, are well educated, are not poverty prone, have healthy babies, and have men friends who provide their children with love. The problem of adolescents and gender…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Fiction, High School Students, Mothers

Koberg, Christine S.; Chusmir, Leonard H. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1989
Tested 200 managerial and nonmanagerial women and men for degree of sex role conflict and work-related attitudes. Results showed that sex role conflict was related to low job involvement for managerial women. Overall, women scored higher in sex role conflict but not significantly different in other job-related variables being tested. (GG)
Descriptors: Behavior, Conflict, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Abu Nasr, Julinda; And Others – 1983
This document is divided into two parts: (1) "A Study of Sex Role Stereotype in Arabic Readers" and (2) "A Guide for the Identification and Elimination of Sexism in Arabic Textbooks." In part 1, a sample of 79 Arabic readers were read word for word and the images pertaining to females were recorded. The results of the survey…
Descriptors: Arabs, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Allen, Mary J.; Sethi, Renuka R. – 1981
A quest for knowledge about the behavior and development of people in other parts of the world, concerns for social action, and greater family mobility have led to an increased interest in cross-cultural research. Male (N=112) and female (N=113) college students in India rated the desirability of 104 traits for Indian men or for Indian women. The…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Whitley, Bernard E., Jr. – 1981
Research on the relationship between sex-role orientation and psychological well-being has been guided by one of three models. The congruence model holds that psychological well-being will be fostered only when one's sex-role orientation is congruent with one's gender; the androgyny model proposes that well-being will be maximized when one's…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Congruence (Psychology), Masculinity, Measures (Individuals)
Andre, Rae – 1981
Research on the quality of employees' working life can be adapted to studies of the quality of working life for homemakers. However, a basic difference to be considered is the homemakers' values about their work, the goals, and the rewards. Open-ended interviews about homemaking with 30 metropolitan homemakers yielded a wide variety of responses,…
Descriptors: Family Life, Home Management, Homemakers, Job Satisfaction
King, Lynda A.; And Others – 1981
In a review of instruments measuring gender-related constructs, a number of shortcomings were found in existing scales. A new scale to measure sex-role attitudes was developed and tested by first proposing the construct of sex-role egalitarianism and then initiating the process of construct validation by developing a reliable measure of the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Interpersonal Relationship