Gender-stereotyped preferences in childhood and early adolescence: A comparison of cross-sectional and longitudinal data
- Autor(en)
- Margit H. Kanka, Petra Wagner, Marlis Buchmann, Christiane Spiel
- Abstrakt
Children are exposed to a gender-specific environment on an everyday basis through media, books, school supplies and especially toys. Children's movies and television programs were found to portray protagonists' occupational and private roles in a very traditional, gender-stereotypical way. The present two studies aimed to investigate gender-specific preferences in childhood and early adolescence. Cross-sectional data (study 1) were compared to longitudinal one (study 2) as we specifically aimed to investigate changes in gender preferences over time. A person-oriented approach, namely Configural Frequency Analysis was applied, to categorically analyze the relationship and development of gender-stereotyped preferences throughout childhood and early adolescence. Consistent with former studies, study 1 showed that gender-stereotypical preferences increased by age, for boys to a higher extent than for girls. By the age of twelve, these preferences had decreased supporting the theory of Kohlberg that children's gender-stereotypic preferences continuously grow until around six years of age to finally lower thereafter. Gender-specific preferences generally became much more flexible over time.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Ferdinand Porsche Fernfachhochschule, Universität Zürich (UZH), Fachhochschule Oberösterreich
- Journal
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Band
- 16
- Seiten
- 198-214
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 17
- ISSN
- 1740-5629
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2017.1365703
- Publikationsdatum
- 03-2019
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501002 Angewandte Psychologie, 501016 Pädagogische Psychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c1b306c9-3522-4d83-b0dc-a1a4abba11f8