The purpose of this investigation is to explore gender role attitudes among Thai
college students and to determine whether differences in gender role attitudes among
Thai college students are related to the sex of students, college major and family
structure. To investigate this problem a Gender Role Attitude Inventory is developed
and three hypothesis are developed. Research participants include 300
junior/undergraduate college students at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Frequencies and descriptive statistics are used to analyze the sample and
inferential statistics are used to interpret the data and to answer the research question
posed. The group West is used to compare the mean difference of students' gender role
attitude scores between male and female students, between female students who
participate in traditional feminine college majors and those who are involved in
nontraditional college majors, and between students who grew up in families where both
parents worked outside the home and those who were raised in families where fathers
were employed and mothers did not work outside the home.
The results show that female students expressed significantly more egalitarian
gender role attitudes than male students. Female students with nontraditional majors
tend to demonstrate more egalitarian gender role attitudes than those with traditional
majors. Students from dual-earner families, where both father and mother worked
outside the home, are shown to have higher levels of egalitarian gender role attitudes as
compare to students from single-earner families, where fathers were employed outside
the home and mothers were not employed in wage labor. / Graduation date: 1998
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/33796 |
| Date | 02 June 1997 |
| Creators | Surinya, Tippavan |
| Contributors | Lee, Janet |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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