Differences in women's and men's thinking about parent-child interactions.
To determine if young women and men think differently about parenting when presented with the same information, a factorial between-subjects experiment was conducted. Two case studies (one successful, one unsuccessful) were evaluated; they varied only in terms of parent sex and child sex. Respondents explained parenting performance and rated both the parent and the child on the same personality items. The 136 women in the study were especially sensitive to the possibility of a child being troubled. Compared with the 136 men, they were less inclined to explain failure as the child's fault and to describe a child as mean.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010551:Personality; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013850:Thinking; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*