Gender Norm Salience Across Middle Schools: Contextual Variations in Associations Between Gender Typicality and Socioemotional Distress.

Youth who feel they do not fit with gender norms frequently experience peer victimization and socioemotional distress. To gauge differences between schools, the current study examined the longitudinal effects of school-level gender norm salience—a within-school association between gender typicality...

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Published in:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 947 - 961
Main Authors: Smith, Danielle Sayre, Schacter, Hannah L., Enders, Craig, Juvonen, Jaana
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Published: Springer Nature May2018
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          Smith, Danielle Sayre
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          University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
          University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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        Gender differences (Psychology)
        Social norms
        Adolescent psychology
        Psychosocial factors
        Psychological distress
        Gender identity
        Social anxiety
        Depression in adolescence
        Conformity
        Loneliness
        Psychology of middle school students
        Sex distribution
        Adolescent health
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          Gender identity
          Social anxiety
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          Conformity
          Loneliness
          Psychology of middle school students
          Sex distribution
          Adolescent health
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        Early adolescence
        Gender norms
        Gender typicality
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      ab: Youth who feel they do not fit with gender norms frequently experience peer victimization and socioemotional distress. To gauge differences between schools, the current study examined the longitudinal effects of school-level gender norm salience—a within-school association between gender typicality and peer victimization—on socioemotional distress across 26 ethnically diverse middle schools (<italic>n</italic> = 2607; <italic>n</italic> = 2805). Boys (but not girls) reporting lower gender typicality experienced more loneliness and social anxiety in schools with more salient gender norms, even when accounting for both individual and school level victimization. Greater gender norm salience also predicted increased depressed mood among boys regardless of gender typicality. These findings suggest particular sensitivity among boys to environments in which low gender typicality is sanctioned.
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