CHILDRENS REASONING REGARDING SEX-TYPED TOY CHOICES
CHILDRENS REASONING REGARDING SEX-TYPED TOY CHOICES
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DOI：
10.2307/1129639
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发表时间：
1982-01-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
HITE, T
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作者：
EISENBERG, N;MURRAY, E;HITE, T
探讨了儿童在玩具偏好任务中选择的意义，并确定儿童对玩具性别适当性的理解是否是性别类型对象选择的重要有意识决定因素。儿童（3 岁和 4 岁）接受采访，以确定他们认为自己、另一个男孩和另一个女孩会喜欢和不喜欢哪些性玩具，并询问他们每个选择的理由。此外，当孩子们在自由玩耍时玩各种玩具时，还被询问原因。根据数据，孩子们使用大量以性别角色为导向的思维（11-55%）来证明他们对其他孩子的好恶的回答是合理的。在测试情况下，他们很少使用此类推理来证明有关他们自己的玩具偏好（尤其是他们的喜好）的决策的合理性。孩子们在玩耍时很少会参考性别角色刻板印象来证明他们实际选择的玩具是合理的。他们倾向于主要根据玩具的功能来为自己（和他人）选择最喜欢的玩具。对自己玩具偏好的测试和评估儿童对其他人偏好的了解的测试在含义上可能并不等同。儿童的性别偏好是否是有意识地尝试按照性别角色刻板印象行事的结果，这一点值得怀疑。
The meaning was explored of children''s choices in toy preference tasks and to determine if children''s understanding of sex appropriateness of toys is an important conscious determinant of sex-typed object choices. Children (3 and 4 yr old) were interviewed to determine which sex-typed toys they thought they themselves, another boy, and another girl would like and dislike, and were questioned about their reasoning for each choice. Further, when the children played with various toys during free play, they were questioned concerning their reasons. According to the data, the children used considerable amounts of sex-role-oriented thinking (11-55%) to justify their answers regarding other children''s likes and dislikes. They used significantly less of this type of reasoning to justify decisions regarding their own toy preferences (especially their likes) in the test situation. Children seldom justify their actual toy choices during play with references to sex-role stereotypes. They tended to choose favorate toys for themselves (and others) based primarily on what the toy could do. Tests of own toy preference and tests assessing children''s knowledge of others'' preferences may not be equivalent in meaning. It is questionable that children''s sex-typed preferences are the result of conscious attempts to act in accordance with sex-role stereotypes.