Approval of Cross-Sex-Role Behavior
- 1 August 1974
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 35 (1) , 643-648
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1974.35.1.643
Abstract
Previous research has indicated that sex-role preferences of boys were more clearly masculine than girls' preferences were feminine. In order to provide a partial explanation of this phenomenon, the responses of 107 college students to descriptions of cross-sex-role behavior of young boys and girls were investigated. Ss rated 10 one-sentence descriptions of cross-sex-role behavior on an approval-disapproval dimension. Both male and female Ss indicated greater disapproval of cross-sex-role behavior of boys than of girls. The relationship of these findings to previous research was discussed.Keywords
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