Sex Differences in Adults' Gifts and Children's Toy Requests at Christmas
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 56 (3) , 969-970
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1985.56.3.969
Abstract
Parents of 47 preschool boys and girls kept diaries of their children's Christmas toy requests and gifts. While these children requested only 3.4 toys for Christmas, they received 11.6. Toys requested also increased with age, though toys received did not. Boys requested and received more vehicles than girls, while girls requested and received more domestic items than boys. Boys also received more spatial-temporal items than girls, and girls requested more dolls and musical items than boys.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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