Gender and sex-role differences in young adult reactions towards "newborns" in a pretend situation.
104 college students were asked to fill out a questionnaire on sex-role orientation, act out a scene as a parent with a newborn baby (doll), rate their attitudes toward the baby using a semantic differential scale of 19 adjective pairs, and write an open-ended statement about the baby's future. Analysis indicated few differences in how men and women reacted to or described boy and girl babies and most of the variability in scores could be accounted for by interactions involving sex-role orientation. Sex-stereotyped women typically gave ratings similar to those given by androgynous women while sex-stereotyped men, when they differed from androgynous men, generally gave less positive ratings.
Demarest
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Monmouth College, New Jersey.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007231:Infant, Newborn / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010332:Paternal Behavior; D013240:Stereotyping