Impact of Maternal Employment on Daughters' Sex-Role Orientation and Fear of Success
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 49 (3) , 963-968
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1981.49.3.963
Abstract
Maternal employment was related to scores on the Bem Sex-role Inventory as well as to fear of success in a sample of 90 high school females. Data indicated that the daughters of working mothers were significantly more androgynous and demonstrated less fear of success than did the daughters of non-working mothers. Results are discussed in terms of the modeling of a broad spectrum of sex-role behaviors by the employed mothers that are positively reflected in the daughters' self-concept.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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