Gender Role Typing and Attachment to Parents and Peers

Replicates and extends a study investigating the effects of sex/gender role typing on attachment to parent and peers. Participants were 395 undergraduate freshmen. Finds that androgynous females reported more close childhood friends, gender role typing and closeness to parents were related, and andr...

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Published in:The Journal of social psychology 2000-04, Vol.140 (2), p.258-260
Main Authors: Forbes, Gordon B., Adams-curtis, Leah E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Androgyny
Attachment
Behavioral sciences
Child development
Children & youth
College Students
Community Colleges
Comparative Analysis
Evidence
Factors
Fathers
Female
Females
Femininity
Gender differences
Gender Identity
Gender Issues
Higher Education
Humans
Illinois
Individual Characteristics
Individual Differences
Interpersonal Relationship
Male
Males
Masculinity
Mothers
Object Attachment
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Parental attachment
Parents
Parents & parenting
Peer Group
Peer Relations
Peer Relationship
Peers
Replication studies
Resistance (Psychology)
Self Esteem
Sex Differences
Sex Role
Sex Roles
Sex Stereotypes
Sexes
Social psychology
Statistical Analysis
Students
Undergraduate Students
United States of America
Universities
USA
Variance analysis
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Summary:Replicates and extends a study investigating the effects of sex/gender role typing on attachment to parent and peers. Participants were 395 undergraduate freshmen. Finds that androgynous females reported more close childhood friends, gender role typing and closeness to parents were related, and androgynous gender role typing predicted closeness to opposite-sex parent. (CMK)
ISSN:0022-4545
1940-1183
DOI:10.1080/00224540009600466