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Direct linkSophie G. E. Kedzior; Alice R. Rumbold; Nathan Manning; Helen Calabretto; Zohra S. Lassi; Vivienne M. Moore – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
There is emerging evidence that young people have a good understanding of consent as a concept, but this does not align with real world practices. The perspectives of young people on the complexities of enacting consent are lacking, as are their views on the role of sex and relationships education. This study explored the topic of consent with 18…
Descriptors: Consent, Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Attitudes
Qian, Miao; Wong, Wang Ivy; Nabbijohn, A. Natisha; Wang, Yang; MacMullin, Laura N.; James, Haley J.; Fu, Genyue; Zuo, Bin; VanderLaan, Doug P. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Gender-stereotyped beliefs develop early in childhood and are thought to increase with age based on prior research that was primarily carried out in Western cultures. Little research, however, has examined cross-cultural (in)consistencies in the developmental trajectory of gender-stereotyped beliefs. The present study examined implicit gender-toy…
Descriptors: Toys, Sex Stereotypes, Cultural Influences, Young Children
Danielle Harris; Ilyse Resnick; Tracy Logan; Tom Lowrie – Developmental Science, 2025
There are contentious and persistent gender differences reported in some measures of spatial skills, particularly mental rotation and, to a lesser extent, perspective-taking, which may have an impact on mathematics success. Furthermore, pathways between spatial skills and mathematics may be mediated by other cognitive factors, such as fluid…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Sex Role
Karen Man Wa Kwan; Sylvia Yun Shi; Laura N. MacMullin; A. Natisha Nabbijohn; Diana E. Peragine; Doug P. VanderLaan; Wang Ivy Wong – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Children show less positivity toward gender-nonconforming (GN) than gender-conforming (GC) peers. Yet, little is known about children's reasoning about peers of varying gender expressions, including age-, gender-, and culture-related influences. We investigated how children aged 4- to 5- and 8- to 9-years-old in Hong Kong and Canada (N = 678)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Age Differences, Gender Differences
Alto, Alix T.; Mandalaywala, Tara M. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Gender and age are salient social categories from early in development. However, whether children's beliefs about gender and age intersect, such that gender stereotypes might be expressed differently when asked about children (compared to adults) has not been investigated. Here, in a preregistered study (N = 297), we examined if young children…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Sex Stereotypes, Young Children
Ashling Bourke; Claire Cullen; Catherine Maunsell – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Children have a right to Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). A key place for this to occur is in schools, and teachers' comfort and competence in teaching is critical to delivering high-quality CSE. Good quality Initial Teacher Education (ITE) should provide student teachers with a strong foundation for the delivery of CSE and the creation of…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level
Shawna Urban – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative correlational study investigates caregivers' attitudes toward sexual behavior and sex education for children with Down syndrome, drawing upon the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior. Data was collected from a convenience sample of 112 caregivers. The analysis revealed significant positive associations between…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Sexuality, Sex Education, Down Syndrome
Sara Backman Prytz – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
The educational mission of most western schools today includes the nurturing of children's sexual upbringing, which many scholars see as a way of controlling their sexuality and forming them into "sexual citizens." This article examines how official Swedish school guidelines and textbooks have mediated sexuality norms through education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Guidelines, Textbooks
Gonzalez, Antonya Marie; Block, Katharina; Oh, Hee Jae Julie; Bizzotto, Riley; Baron, Andrew Scott – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Numerous studies suggest that by elementary school, children have implicit and explicit gender stereotypes about the toys, activities, roles, and abilities associated with boys vs. girls. Furthermore, these stereotypes have been shown to affect children's goals and behaviors, leading them to pursue activities that are associated with their own…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Sex Role, Child Behavior, Child Development
Ashley Townes; Brittanni Wright; Shemeka Thorpe; Tsung-Chieh Fu; Debby Herbenick – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2024
Historically, Black sexuality has been depicted through a risk-based lens rather than a sex-positive lens. This study analyzed data from a subset of 540 Black heterosexual adolescents and adults who participated in the 2018 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior. Masturbation, penile-vaginal intercourse, and oral sex were the most prevalent…
Descriptors: African Americans, Adolescents, Adults, Gender Differences
Raisa Cacciatore; Lotta Öhrmark; Julia Kontio; Dan Apter; Susanne Ingman-Friberg; Markus Jokela; Nina Sajaniemi; Julia Korkman; Riittakerttu Kaltiala – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Only a very few studies to date have comprehensively assessed children's knowledge of sexuality. In this study, we examined the level of sexual knowledge among children aged 3-6 years in Finland. We analysed children's explanations of what they saw in drawings related to genital naming, conception and childbirth, safety skills, and adult sexual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Sex Education, Young Children
Schaafsma, Dilana – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Parents play an important role in the sexual health education of their children. However, the sexual health education provided by parents is often limited. Since fathers are underrepresented in studies conducted in this area, we know even less about their role within it. This review therefore aims to answer the following question: what role do…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Role, Sex Education, Sexuality
Takarae, Yukari; Zanesco, Anthony; Keehn, Brandon; Chukoskie, Leanne; Müller, Ralph-Axel; Townsend, Jeanne – Developmental Science, 2022
EEG microstates represent transient electrocortical events that reflect synchronized activities of large-scale networks, which allows investigations of brain dynamics with sub-second resolution. We recorded resting EEG from 38 children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Development (ASD) and 48 age, IQ, sex, and handedness-matched typically…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Adolescents
Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Kim, Hyun-Sook – Religious Education, 2023
Gender conflict, which is emerging as a serious concern in Korean society, is also a subject of discourse in the field of education. A vast majority of university students are affected by economic downturn and are required to compete in an uncertain situation. This study proposes an educational model from the perspective of understanding the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Religious Education, Economic Climate, Sex Fairness
