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Keener, Emily; Mehta, Clare; Strough, JoNell – Gender and Education, 2013
We investigated gender differences in the association between gender-segregated peer preferences and sexism in adolescents (15-17 years, 60 boys and 85 girls). To assess gender-segregated peer preferences, adolescents nominated peers for interaction in two contexts: "hanging out" at home and working on a school project. The Modern Sexism…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Peer Relationship, Gender Bias, Adolescents
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Townsend, Tiffany G.; Thomas, Anita Jones; Neilands, Torsten B.; Jackson, Tiffany R. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2010
Scholars have highlighted the detrimental influence of racially charged stereotypes and images on self-perception and well being. Others have suggested that identity components (e.g., ethnic identity and self-concept) serve a protective function. The purposes of this study were (a) to explore the relationship among stereotypic images, beauty…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Females, Well Being, Interaction
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Willits, Fern K.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1990
Responses of 1,241 Pennsylvania residents to 35 Likert-type items indicated widespread agreement with positive images of rural life, antiurbanism, agrarianism, and wilderness values, and overwhelming rejection of negative images of rurality. Rural residents held more positive attitudes than others toward rurality. Contains 35 references.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Public Opinion, Rural Areas, Rural Environment