Relationship among Differences in Fantasy Pattern, IQ, and Sex-Role Adoption

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This study investigated (a) the age at which boys and girls begin to show differences in patterns of fantasy, (b) the relationship between differences in these patterns and factors such as intelligence, manifest aspects of sex role (in forms of teachers' ratings of masculinity for boys and femininity for girls), and presence or absence of the father at home. The results suggest that from the age of 8 or 9 yr. on, a difference emerges between patterns of fantasy of boys and girls. Such patterns, intelligence, and teachers' ratings of masculinity were not related, whereas patterns of fantasy and teachers' ratings of femininity were related. These findings are interpreted as supporting the value of distinguishing between and sorting out the factors which influence the private and the public aspects of sex role.

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