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Peer reviewedBasow, Susan A.; Crawley, Donna M. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Male and female experimenters requested adult shoppers (N=178) to fill out a questionnaire. Refusal data showed shoppers helping other-sex more than same-sex experimenters. Other results showed a significant three-way interaction among helper and helpee sex and sex-typing and situation sex-typing and that helper sex-typing did not have significant…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Helping Relationship, Prosocial Behavior
Peer reviewedFrisch, Hannah L. – Child Development, 1977
Examined the effects of labeling an infant as a boy or girl on adult-infant interactions. Subjects for the study were 24 fourteen-month-old infants and 24 adult strangers. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedDeGregorio, Eileen; Carver, Charles S. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980
Tests the prediction that the combination of a Type A behavioral style and a sex role orientation low in masculinity would be associated with low self-esteem, high social anxiety, and depression, and that these tendencies would be more pronounced among women than among men. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns
Peer reviewedJones, Warren H.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Tested the hypothesis that psychological androgyny permits greater behavioral flexibility and leads to better adjustment. Contrary to expectations, findings indicated flexibility and adjustment were associated with masculinity. Subsequent experiments revealed that feminine subjects prefer to become more masculine if possible. Results suggest an…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Androgyny, Behavior Patterns
Peer reviewedLipman-Blumen, Jean; Leavitt, Harold J. – Counseling Psychologist, 1976
This paper presents a typology of direct and vicarious achievement orientations relevant to adult problems. Direct and vicarious achievement patterns are related to sex role socialization and sex-linked occupational choice. Recommendations are developed for reevaluating and redesigning adult occupational and interpersonal roles which would take…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Career Choice
Peer reviewedLeinbach, Mary Driver; Fagot, Beverly I. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1991
Attractiveness ratings of 50 children (26 males and 24 females) aged 12-38 months are studied in relation to adults' socializing behavior and attitude toward them. Correlations between attractiveness scores and child behavior reflect sex differences. A greater impact of attractiveness on girls' development than boys is noted. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Child Caregivers
Hawkins, Brenda L. – 1983
Androgyny research has been hampered by a dependency upon traditional masculine and feminine sex roles for definition. Bakan's (1966) concept of agency and communion, which parallels masculinity and femininity, refers to behavioral competencies, involving a style or manner of interacting with the environment devoid of gender designations and…
Descriptors: Adults, Androgyny, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
