Parents' Gender Ideology and Gendered Behavior as Predictors of Children's Gender-Role Attitudes: A Longitudinal Exploration.
Parents' Gender Ideology and Gendered Behavior as Predictors of Children's Gender-Role Attitudes: A Longitudinal Exploration.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11199-015-0539-0
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发表时间：
2016-05
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3.8
通讯作者：
Perry-Jenkins M
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作者：
Paul Halpern H;Perry-Jenkins M
目前的研究利用了居住在美国东北部的 109 对双职工工人阶级夫妇及其 6 岁孩子的纵向自我报告数据。研究问题涉及父母的性别意识形态和性别行为在预测儿童性别角色态度发展中的作用。据推测，父母的行为比他们的意识形态对孩子对性别角色的态度的发展影响更大。家长们接受了问卷调查，评估他们对女性和男性在社会中“正当”角色、母亲的工作偏好、家务和育儿任务的划分、带薪工作时间的划分以及工作传统性的全球信念。这些数据是在为人父母第一年和 6 年随访期间的多个时间点收集的。在最后一个时间点，孩子们完成了性别角色学习量表（SERLI），这是一种评估性别角色态度的互动措施。总体而言，母亲和父亲的行为比父母的意识形态更能预测孩子的性别角色态度。此外，母亲和父亲在子女获取性别刻板印象知识方面发挥着独特的作用。本研究的结果填补了关于家庭背景下儿童性别发展的文献空白，特别是通过研究父亲在儿童获取性别刻板印象知识中所扮演的角色，以及对父母性别意识形态、父母性别行为和儿童性别角色态度之间关系的纵向探索。
The current study utilized longitudinal, self-report data from a sample of 109 dual-earner, working-class couples and their 6-year-old children living in the northeastern United States. Research questions addressed the roles of parents’ gender ideology and gendered behaviors in predicting children’s development of gender-role attitudes. It was hypothesized that parents' behavior would be more influential than their ideology in the development of their children's attitudes about gender roles. Parents responded to questionnaires assessing their global beliefs about women's and men's "rightful" roles in society, work preferences for mothers, division of household and childcare tasks, division of paid work hours, and job traditionality. These data were collected at multiple time points across the first year of parenthood, and during a 6-year follow-up. At the final time point, children completed the Sex Roles Learning Inventory (SERLI), an interactive measure that assesses gender-role attitudes. Overall, mothers’ and fathers’ behaviors were better predictors of children’s gender-role attitudes than parents’ ideology. In addition, mothers and fathers played unique roles in their sons’ and daughters’ acquisition of knowledge about gender stereotypes. Findings from the current study fill gaps in the literature on children’s gender development in the family context—particularly by examining the understudied role of fathers in children’s acquisition of knowledge regarding gender stereotypes and through its longitudinal exploration of the relationship between parents’ gender ideologies, parents’ gendered behaviors, and children’s gender-role attitudes.