Social Development Across The Lifespan In Diverse Cultur

在这个项目中，我们正在调查不同的养育环境（特别是父母的信仰、价值观和实践）如何影响儿童的发展。在一项研究中，纵向评估了7 - 12年级学生自我知觉的性别差异，以探索青少年不同类型自我知觉的前因和相关因素。女孩认为自己在许多角色中比男孩更有亲和力，更少消极的亲和力，但在主张方面的性别差异并不可靠，女孩的自信并没有随着时间的推移而下降。性别差异是根据具体情况而定的，在我作为男孩/女孩和我与亲密同性同伴的评分中更为明显。为了进一步探索这些性别差异的前因，一组瑞典15岁的孩子完成了部分自我认知测试，他们的发展从婴儿期就被系统地记录下来。目前正在对这些数据进行分析。

In this project, we are investigating ways in which variations among rearing environments (especially as indexed by parental beliefs, values, and practices) affect children's development. In one study, gender differences in the self-perceptions of 7th to 12th graders were assessed longitudinally so that the antecedents and correlates of different styles of self-perception in adolescence could be explored. Girls perceived themselves as more affiliative and less negatively affiliative in many roles than boys did, but gender differences in assertion were not reliable and girls' assertiveness did not decline over time. Gender differences were context-specific, and were more pronounced in ratings of Myself as a boy/girl and Myself with a close same-sex peer. To explore antecedents of these gender differences further, portions of the self-perception battery were completed by a group of Swedish 15-year-olds whose development has been documented systematically since infancy. Analyses of these data are currently underway.