Parent and adolescent gender role attitudes in 1990s Great Britain

被引:53
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作者
Burt, KB
Scott, J
机构
[1] Univ Minnesota, Inst Child Dev, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[2] Univ Cambridge, Fac Social & Polit Sci, Cambridge, England
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
gender role attitudes; adolescents; family influence; British Household Panel Survey;
D O I
10.1023/A:1019919331967
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this short-term longitudinal study examined relationships between early- and mid-adolescents' gender role attitudes and the attitudes of their parents. Between 1994 and 1997, 602 families answered questions about the roles of husbands and wives, and whether or not having a working mother is harmful to families. Results confirmed that the gender differences that have been found consistently in the literature regarding adults extend back into early adolescence. Adolescent girls' attitudes were markedly more nontraditional than all other family members. However, results only partially supported our hypotheses regarding family influence on attitudes. In particular, we found little evidence that adolescent attitudes would more closely resemble those of the same-gender parent. Analysis of individual questions supports arguments that gender roles are complex and socially determined, and that British men of both adult and adolescent generations have begun in principle to accept nontraditional roles for wives but are less willing to support any erosion of male power in the family.
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页码:239 / 245
页数:7
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