Children¡¯s reasoning about gender-atypical preferences in different settings

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• 作者：Clare Conry-Murray ^{cec23@psu.edu}
• 关键词：Moral development ; Gender development ; Middle childhood
• 刊名：Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：May, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：115
• 期：1
• 页码：210-217
• 全文大小：299 K

文摘

Two age groups of children, 5- and 6-year-olds (n = 30) and 8- and 9-year-olds (n = 26), made judgments about which of two items a character should choose: a gender-typical item or a gender-atypical item that was preferred by the character. Judgments were made about situations where the character was (a) in a familiar public setting and (b) in a country where the reversed preference was typical for that culture. At both ages and in both settings, a majority of responses endorsed the character¡¯s atypical preference. However, at both ages, endorsements of the atypical preferences were significantly less frequent in the familiar public setting that in the norm-reversed setting, and justifications indicated that there would be social consequences for defying gender norms in the familiar setting.