Parents' Gender Role Attitudes and Child Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Parental Involvement.
Parents' gender role attitudes are pertinent to child adjustment. Importantly, parental involvement may help to explain the link between parents' gender role attitudes and child adjustment. In this study, we investigated the differential contributions of mothers' and fathers' gender role attitudes o...
| Published in: | Sex Roles Vol. 89; no. 7/8; pp. 425 - 442 |
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