The present study is an investigation of hypotheses derived from gender schema theory. As background for the study, gender schema theory was discussed along with research in the areas of sex-typing, person categorization, and general schema theory. The study was undertaken to determine whether sex-typed and non-sex-typed persons differ in the distinctiveness of descriptors which they attribute to complementary male and female stimulus roles and whether they differ in the richness of such descriptors. Subjects were 60 male and 60 female undergraduate students who were classified into four sex-type groups (androgynous, sex-typed, cross-sex-typed, and undifferentiated) based on their scores on the Bem Sex Role Inventory. Subjects were required to generate lists of characteristics which they associated with five female and five male role subcategories. Results showed that subjects' gender was predictive of the distinctiveness of descriptors across role subcategories, while sex-type was predictive of the richness of descriptors with sex-typed subjects exhibiting more elaborate and rich networks of association to the stimuli. The latter result is consistent with the major proposition of gender schema theory. Additionally, the results suggest that the gender schema contains information of a behavioral and image-like nature as well as more abstract, trait information. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-02, Section: B, page: 0645. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75056 |
| Contributors | GAYLES, JOYCE MARIE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 75 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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