Teacher ratings and adolescent students’ perceived social behaviours and gender-role orientations

The present study investigates differences in students' perceptions of socialisation and gender roles in Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany. N = 64 male and 111 female Japanese and N = 61 male and 59 female German students completed paper-and-pencil tests. Group comparisons showed significant differences with respect to perceptions of socialisation and gender-role orientation. Japanese adolescents reported more parental acceptance and control than German adolescents. Japanese mothers were seen as more and German mothers were seen as less controlling than respective fathers whereas at the same time mothers in both countries were seen as more supportive than fathers. Furthermore, Japanese students had more "traditional" gender-role orientations than German adolescents. These results are interpreted on the basis of culture-specific values underlying socialisation and the organisation of interpersonal relations.

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High School Final Year Students’ Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, Attachment Styles and Gender Role Orientations

Current Psychology ◽

10.1007/s12144-016-9409-3 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 252-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Neslihan Bolat ◽

Hatice Odacı

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Decision Making ◽

Gender Role ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Role Orientations ◽

And Gender

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The Relationship of Digit Ratio (2D:4D) and Gender-Role Orientation in Four National Samples

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.28.2.78 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 78-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Stefan J. Troche ◽

Nina Weber ◽

Karina Hennigs ◽

Carl-René Andresen ◽

Thomas H. Rammsayer

Keyword(s):

Gender Role ◽

Sex Role ◽

Role Orientation ◽

Sexually Dimorphic ◽

Gender Role Orientation ◽

Left Hand ◽

Fourth Finger ◽

And Gender ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Abstract. The ratio of second to fourth finger length (2D:4D ratio) is sexually dimorphic with women having higher 2D:4D ratio than men. Recent studies on the relationship between 2D:4D ratio and gender-role orientation yielded rather inconsistent results. The present study examines the moderating influence of nationality on the relationship between 2D:4D ratio and gender-role orientation, as assessed with the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, as a possible explanation for these inconsistencies. Participants were 176 female and 171 male university students from Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden ranging in age from 19 to 32 years. Left-hand 2D:4D ratio was significantly lower in men than in women across all nationalities. Right-hand 2D:4D ratio differed only between Swedish males and females indicating that nationality might effectively moderate the sexual dimorphism of 2D:4D ratio. In none of the examined nationalities was a reliable relationship between 2D:4D ratio and gender-role orientation obtained. Thus, the assumption of nationality-related between-population differences does not seem to account for the inconsistent results on the relationship between 2D:4D ratio and gender-role orientation.

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