Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior Predicts Adolescent Gender-Typed Occupational Interests: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study.
There are significant gender differences in both play behavior and occupational interests. Play has been regarded as an important medium for development of skills and personal characteristics. Play may also influence subsequent preferences through social and cognitive processes involved in gender de...
| Published in: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 843 - 852 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=149732441&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 149732441 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00040002 ASX jtl: Archives of Sexual Behavior issn: 00040002 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2021 vid: 50 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 149732441 10.1007/s10508-021-01976-z ppf: 843 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 568KB tig: atl: Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior Predicts Adolescent Gender-Typed Occupational Interests: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study. aug: au: Kung, Karson T. F. affil: Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK su: Gender differences (Psychology) Play Gender Human sexuality Occupations Gender identity Vocational interests Research Time Research methodology Medical cooperation Evaluation research Comparative studies Research funding Longitudinal method sug: subj: Gender differences (Psychology) Play Gender Human sexuality Occupations Gender identity Vocational interests Research Time Research methodology Medical cooperation Evaluation research Comparative studies Research funding Longitudinal method keyword: Adolescence ALSPAC Occupation Sex Adolescence ALSPAC Occupation Sex ab: There are significant gender differences in both play behavior and occupational interests. Play has been regarded as an important medium for development of skills and personal characteristics. Play may also influence subsequent preferences through social and cognitive processes involved in gender development. The present study investigated the association between gender-typed play behavior in early childhood and gender-typed occupational interests in early adolescence. Participants were drawn from a British longitudinal population study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Participants were recruited based on their parent-reported gender-typed play behavior assessed at age 3.5 years. There were 66 masculine boys and 61 masculine girls, 82 feminine boys and 69 feminine girls, and 55 randomly selected control boys and 67 randomly selected control girls. At age 13 years, the participants were administered a questionnaire assessing their interest in gender-typed occupations. It was found that masculine children showed significantly more interest in male-typical occupations than did control or feminine children. Compared with control children, feminine children had marginally significantly lower interest in male-typical jobs. Masculine children also had significantly lower interest in female-typical jobs than did control or feminine children. The associations were not moderated by gender and were observed after taking into account sociodemographic background, parental occupations, and academic performance. The degree of gender-typed play shown by preschoolers can predict their occupational interests 10 years later following transition into adolescence. Childhood gender-typed play has occupational implications that transcend developmental stages. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: journal article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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