TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender Schema, Gender Constancy, and Gender-Role Knowledge
T2 - The Roles of Cognitive Factors in Preschoolers' Gender-Role Stereotype Attributions
AU - Levy, Gary D.
AU - Carter, D. Bruce
PY - 1989/5
Y1 - 1989/5
N2 - Investigated the influence of several cognitive components of children's gender-role development on their attributions of gender-role stereotypes to a particular sex. A total of 83 children (44 boys and 39 girls) completed a 2-part interview that assessed degree of gender schematization, gender-role knowledge, flexibility, and stage of gender constancy. Children also completed tasks assessing attributions of gender-role stereotypes to male and female figures. Results indicated that children's gender schematization and other cognitive gender schema factors were significantly associated with children's accuracy in attributing gender-role stereotypes to both males and females. In contrast, stage of gender constancy per se was not significantly correlated with any of children's gender-role stereotype attributions. The patterns of results offer further evidence of the importance of gender schemata in early gender-role development.
AB - Investigated the influence of several cognitive components of children's gender-role development on their attributions of gender-role stereotypes to a particular sex. A total of 83 children (44 boys and 39 girls) completed a 2-part interview that assessed degree of gender schematization, gender-role knowledge, flexibility, and stage of gender constancy. Children also completed tasks assessing attributions of gender-role stereotypes to male and female figures. Results indicated that children's gender schematization and other cognitive gender schema factors were significantly associated with children's accuracy in attributing gender-role stereotypes to both males and females. In contrast, stage of gender constancy per se was not significantly correlated with any of children's gender-role stereotype attributions. The patterns of results offer further evidence of the importance of gender schemata in early gender-role development.
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U2 - 10.1037/0012-1649.25.3.444
DO - 10.1037/0012-1649.25.3.444
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000416440
SN - 0012-1649
VL - 25
SP - 444
EP - 449
JO - Developmental psychology
JF - Developmental psychology
IS - 3
ER -