Values for gender roles and relations among high school and non-high school adolescents in a Maya community in Chiapas, Mexico

In the current study, I describe values for gender roles and cross‐sex relations among adolescents growing up in a southern Mexican Maya community in which high school was introduced in 1999. A total of 80 adolescent girls and boys, half of whom were attending the new high school, provided their opi...

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Published in:International journal of psychology 2015-02, Vol.50 (1), p.20-28
Main Author: Manago, Adriana M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescent boys
Adolescent girls
Adult
Ascription
Attitude
Child psychology
Coding
Community
Courtship
Cultural values
Educational Status
Family - psychology
Female
Gender
Gender Identity
Gender roles
Girls
Humans
Indians, North American - psychology
Indians, North American - statistics & numerical data
Interpersonal Relations
Intimacy
Male
Mediation
Mexican people
Mexico
Native children & youth
Opposite sex
Parents
Peer Group
Perceptions
Residence Characteristics
Schools
Secondary schools
Sex roles
Sexuality
Social Change
Social Values
Teenagers
Values
Vignettes
Young Adult
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Summary:In the current study, I describe values for gender roles and cross‐sex relations among adolescents growing up in a southern Mexican Maya community in which high school was introduced in 1999. A total of 80 adolescent girls and boys, half of whom were attending the new high school, provided their opinions on two ethnographically derived vignettes that depicted changes in gender roles and relations occurring in their community. Systematic coding revealed that adolescents not enrolled in high school tended to prioritise ascribed and complementary gender roles and emphasise the importance of family mediation in cross‐sex relations. Adolescents who were enrolled in high school tended to prioritise equivalent and chosen gender roles, and emphasised personal responsibility and personal fulfillment in cross‐sex relations. Perceptions of risks and opportunities differed by gender: girls favourably evaluated the expansion of adult female role options, but saw risks in personal negotiations of cross‐sex relations; boys emphasised the loss of the female homemaker role, but favourably evaluated new opportunities for intimacy in cross‐sex relations.
ISSN:0020-7594
1464-066X
DOI:10.1002/ijop.12126