Gender Role Typing and Attachment to Parents and Peers.

Forbes, Gordon B.; Adams-Curtis, Leah E.

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ERIC Number: EJ628667

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Gender Role Typing and Attachment to Parents and Peers.

Forbes, Gordon B.; Adams-Curtis, Leah E.

Journal of Social Psychology, v140 n2 p258-60 Apr 2000

Replicates and extends a study investigating the effects of sex/gender role typing on attachment to parent and peers. Participants were 395 undergraduate freshmen. Finds that androgynous females reported more close childhood friends, gender role typing and closeness to parents were related, and androgynous gender role typing predicted closeness to opposite-sex parent. (CMK)

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Females, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Males, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Sex Differences, Sex Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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