Racial and ethnic differences in girls' sexual, marital, and birth expectations
Racial and ethnic differences in girls' sexual, marital, and birth expectations
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10.2307/353448
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1998-02-01
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East, PL
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East, PL
本研究考察了青春期早期女孩期望和感知的规范角色时间的潜在种族和民族差异，以及各种社会经济和家庭因素以及学校和工作抱负可能与女孩角色目标期望相关的程度。使用一个种族和民族多样化的样本，（n = 574； 183西班牙裔，177黑人，93白人和70东南亚人；M年龄= 12.9），结果表明，不同种族和民族的年轻女性的生命历程以不同的顺序展开，基于不同的时间表，独立于他们的社会经济环境。拉美裔人希望在年轻时快速过渡，而东南亚人希望在老年时更渐进地过渡。黑人认为自己非婚生育的可能性最大，第一次性行为和第一次生育之间的标准间隔最长，但他们希望第一次婚姻和第一次生育之间的间隔最短。种族内回归显示，女孩的未来抱负对她们预期的角色选择非常重要，即使在社会经济劣势（福利领取、家庭收入低）的背景下也是如此。研究结果表明，在年轻女性的生活中，特定文化的年龄规范对激励角色时机和角色顺序的重要性。
This study examines potential racial and ethnic differences in early adolescent girls' desired and perceived normative role timing and the extent to which various socioeconomic and family factors and school and job aspirations might be linked with girls' role-aiming expectations. Using a racially and ethnically diverse sample, (n = 574; 183 Hispanics, 177 Blacks, 93 Whites, and 70 Southeast Asians; M age = 12.9), results indicated that young women of different races and ethnicities saw their life course unfold in different sequences based on different timetables and independent of their socioeconomic circumstances. Hispanics desired rapid transitions at a young age, and Southeast Asians desired more gradual transitions at an older age. Blacks perceived the greatest likelihood of nonmarital childbearing for themselves, the longest normative interval between first sex and first birth, but they desired the shortest interval between first marriage and first birth. Within-race regressions revealed that girls' future aspirations M ere important for their expected role timing, even within the context of socioeconomic disadvantage (welfare receipt, low family income). Findings suggest the importance of culture-specific age norms for motivating role timing and role sequencing in young women's lives.