TY - JOUR
T1 - Measures of children's sex typing in middle childhood
AU - Antill, John K.
AU - Russell, Graeme
AU - Goodnow, Jaqueline J.
AU - Cotton, Sandra
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Measures of sex‐typing suitable for use with 8to 14‐year‐olds are proposed. They involve interests, toys, sports, household jobs, friends, similarity to peers and personality. The measures fit conceptually into Huston's (1983) framework within the categories “Behavioural enactment or adoption” and “Identity or self‐perception”. The sample comprised first and second born children from 191 families (first borns 98 males, 93 females; second borns 95 males, 96 females). They were selected using a stratified random sampling procedure involving area risk scores. The children in 161 families were assessed on a second occasion, on average 16 months after the first testing. The measures were shown to have suitable psychometric properties: sex differences in the expected directions, moderate coefficient alpha values, consistency over time in terms of moderate correlations, and few changes in means. Intercorrelations among the measures revealed little coherence either within each of the two Huston categories or among the measures in general. These results support a multidimensional view of sex‐typing and draw attention to limitations of studies which use single measures of this variable. 1993 Australian Psychological Society
AB - Measures of sex‐typing suitable for use with 8to 14‐year‐olds are proposed. They involve interests, toys, sports, household jobs, friends, similarity to peers and personality. The measures fit conceptually into Huston's (1983) framework within the categories “Behavioural enactment or adoption” and “Identity or self‐perception”. The sample comprised first and second born children from 191 families (first borns 98 males, 93 females; second borns 95 males, 96 females). They were selected using a stratified random sampling procedure involving area risk scores. The children in 161 families were assessed on a second occasion, on average 16 months after the first testing. The measures were shown to have suitable psychometric properties: sex differences in the expected directions, moderate coefficient alpha values, consistency over time in terms of moderate correlations, and few changes in means. Intercorrelations among the measures revealed little coherence either within each of the two Huston categories or among the measures in general. These results support a multidimensional view of sex‐typing and draw attention to limitations of studies which use single measures of this variable. 1993 Australian Psychological Society
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U2 - 10.1080/00049539308259115
DO - 10.1080/00049539308259115
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84990161426
SN - 0004-9530
VL - 45
SP - 25
EP - 33
JO - Australian Journal of Psychology
JF - Australian Journal of Psychology
IS - 1
ER -