Sex-Role Discrimination among Young Children
- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 27 (2) , 379-389
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1968.27.2.379
Abstract
3- and 4-yr.-old girls and boys were required to make choices among the various sex-typed items on the It scale under 3 instructional conditions. Results showed that both boys and girls have learned to make sex-typed discriminations by 3 yr. of age; and that girls were better or as good as boys, 4-yr.-olds were better than 3-yr.-olds, and children with an opposite-sex sibling were better than those with no sibling at making sex-typed discriminations for a girl and/or a boy.Keywords
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