and higher status individuals as more masculine- than feminine-typed, even when the feminine and masculine descriptors are equated in terms of their potency, evaluation, or activity; the latter are underlying dimensions of meaning (Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957), and potency and activity are ...
Cognitive performance reflects sex and gender differences that are partially consistent with the literature. Interestingly, biological factors seem to better explain differences in male-typed cognitive tasks (i.e., spatial), while psychosocial factors seem to better explain differences in female-typed cog...
(2) Gender-typed sports evaluation: The participants were asked to rate each of the initially screened sports items on a 10-point Likert scale. The masculine names “Yu Minghui” and “Fan Kunhong” and the feminine names “Du Huimin” and “Wang Yuexuan” were selected as typical male an...
meaning that they invoke distal or indirect causes. For instance, evolutionary theorists suggest a distal cause, namely that children prepare for gender-typed adult roles through gender-segregated play early in life (Geary & Bjorklund, 2000; Pellegrini, 2004). Another common explanation involves indir...
Meaning These items, which have been used to measure gender diversity in childhood, do not reflect gender identity and, despite these associations, should not be used to infer sexual orientation; more accurate measures should be developed that are asked of children and young people directly. Abstra...
And due to this gender inequality, women have been led to poorly paid gender typed positions. The gender pay gap negatively impacts individuals and some elements that play a major role in this issue are: work experience, independent skills, specific length of time at a company, and the level...
This study investigates whether gender-typed behaviors are associated with two aspects of school adjustment—engagement and attachment. The analysis u
it has been suggested by some researchers that attainment of gender identity has important implications for the adoption and maintenance of sex-typed behavior. However, as children become older, develop more complex identities, and become embedded in more complex social worlds, it is believed that ...
Participants saw a reversing image followed by a sentence frame and then typed a response using the figure names and the frame. b, The percentage of trials on which participants’ descriptions began with the person like them, on gender trials and on race trials, split by the language used (...
Cognitive performance reflects sex and gender differences that are partially consistent with the literature. Interestingly, biological factors seem to better explain differences in male-typed cognitive tasks (i.e., spatial), while psychosocial factors seem to better explain differences in female-typed cog...