The purpose of this study was to explore the significant differences on elementary school students¡¦ attitude toward gender and their sex role identity among different background. Four hundred eighty participants from 7 different elementary schools were selected by stratified random sampling for completing ¡§Gender Attitude Scale¡¨ and ¡§Sex Role Identity Scale¡¨. Descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation, and multiple stepwise regression analysis were conducted on the quantitative data. The major findings were as follows:
1. Girls had significantly higher score on femininity than their boy counterparts.
2. Girls had significantly higher means on gender attitude scale than these boys.
3. The 6th grade students had significantly higher means on gender attitude scale than the 5th grade students.
4. Children with different birth order and parental marital conditions had similar mean scores on gender attitude and sex role identity.
5. Children come from families with girl only had significantly higher means on the femininity and gender attitude than these boy family children.
6. Children come from authoritative and permissive father practices families had significantly higher scores on sex role identity than these children come from uninvolved father practice families.
7. Children come from authoritative mother practice had significantly higher scores on gender attitude than these children come from uninvolved mother practice families.
8. Children with good peer relationships had significantly higher scores on gender attitude and sex role identity than other group counterparts.
9. There was significant positive correlation between students¡¦ gender attitude and sex role identity.
10. The three highest significantly predictors for elementary school children¡¦s attitudes toward gender and sex role identity were good peer relationship, gender, and grades.
The conclusions of this study were to provide several suggestions for family educators, school educators, education administrators, and academic institute for future research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0817112-140829 |
| Date | 17 August 2012 |
| Creators | Hsueh, Yuan-ching |
| Contributors | Huann-shyang Lin, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Dr. Zuway-R Hong |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0817112-140829 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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