SELF-REGULATORY MECHANISMS GOVERNING GENDER DEVELOPMENT
SELF-REGULATORY MECHANISMS GOVERNING GENDER DEVELOPMENT
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01692.x
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发表时间:
1992-10-01
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
BANDURA, A
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作者:
BUSSEY, K;BANDURA, A
This study tested predictions about development of gender-related thought and action from social cognitive theory. Children at 4 levels of gender constancy were assessed for their gender knowledge, personal gender standards, and gender-linked behavior under different situational conditions. Irrespective of gender constancy level, all children engaged in more same-sex than cross-sex typed behavior. Younger children reacted in a gender stereotypic manner to peers' gender-linked behavior but did not regulate their own behavior on the basis of personal gender standards. Older children exhibited substantial self-regulatory guidance based on personal standards. They expressed anticipatory self-approval for same-sex typed behavior and self-criticism for cross-sex typed behavior. Their anticipatory self-sanctions, in tum, predicted their actual gender-linked behavior. Neither gender knowledge nor gender constancy predicted gender-linked behavior. These results lend support to social cognitive theory that evaluation and regulation of gender-linked conduct shifts developmentally from anticipatory social sanctions to anticipatory self-sanctions rooted in personal standards.