Sex Differences in Self-Assessed, Everyday Spatial Abilities
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 55 (1) , 200-202
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1982.55.1.200
Abstract
397 female and 383 male college students assessed themselves on six everyday spatial abilities relative to others of the same gender and age. Males consistently judged themselves to have significantly greater spatial ability than females. Differential participation in sports is tentatively suggested as a critical social influence affecting not only putative spatial performance but even within-gender self-assessments of commonplace activities using spatial ability.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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