Children's Figure Drawings and Changing Attitudes toward Sex Roles

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Abstract
Based on an analysis of the sex of the first drawn figure as being the product of both sexual identificatory ties and cultural attitudes toward the sexes, it was hypothesized that the more positive contemporary values assigned to the female role would be reflected in a greater percentage of girls now drawing their own sex as compared to previous times. This expectation was confirmed with two separate normative samples. The second hypothesis, predicting a differential effect of an instructional set stressing sexual equality as compared with a set stressing sexual role distinction or a control condition, was not supported.