Gender Roles in Children
One article that was selected tested children's ability to discern between male and female activities and the effects of children's understanding of gender constancy based on height and sex (Effects). They both tested the child's interactive effects of social and cognitive factors. Gender role knowledge, flexibility and schematization, social environments and their effects on children were also questioned (Relations). To test these ideas the researchers interviewed the children and used models to test their abilities in the area of study. In the "Effects" article, it was expected that children would use the model's sex in relating more masculine activities to male and taller models and more feminine activities to female and shorter models. In the results, this hypothesis was confirmed (Effects). Congruent with predictions of the other article, older children, and children that had more interaction with their mothers and other factors were all demonstrated (Relations). About sixty children were tested in each experiment, ranging in ages from 33 to 78 months of age with an equal ratio of the sexes. The children, from a suburban preschool were asked to classify objects into gender typed categor
The results showed that children seemed to develop a stable understanding of gender constancy by approximately fifty-seven months of age. The results of the gender-typing experiment, bases on sex and height concluded that the children related more masculine activities to males than females, feminine activities to shorter females than to taller males, masculine activities to shorter males rather than taller females, and to taller rather than shorter males. They also related more feminine activities to taller females than to taller males. After looking at the results they found that the children's understanding of gender constancy did not relate to their ability to gender type (Effects). Consistent with predictions, it is indicated that larger amounts of interaction with a same-sex parent is positively associated with greater schematization in boys and gender role knowledge in girls. This research suggests strong relations between cognitive and social variables influence gender role development (Relations). Future research may try to examine the impact of social variables on boys' and girls' gender role development. Differences could also be sought out in other areas of the country and the world to look at the differences between cultures. Other research could go on to study older children's "attributions of gender-typed psychological characterist
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