Provides a description of a detailed socialization model of election of mathematics courses. Mathematics achievement expectations and values are hypothesized to be influenced by students' perceptions of their own abilities, personal needs, and future goals, and by their perceptions of a set of task characteristics inherent in various achievement…

The relationship between aspects of preschool socialization experiences and sex-typed behavior was investigated in this study. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) that preschool play activities differ consistently in structure level, (2) that there are sex differences in participation in activities classified as high or low structure, and (3) that…

Presented is evidence that situational factors have more effect on political behavior of both sexes than is usually reported in socialization literature. When situational factors are varied, respondents in the high stimulus situation are found to be more politically expressive regardless of sex. Available from: Southern Political Science…

A theoretical model of parental socialization of children's coping behavior was tested with 310 fourth- and fifth-graders. Found that children's coping efforts were associated with family environment, the quality of the parent-child relationship, parents' own coping, and parent coping suggestions. Maternal data were more strongly associated with…

Examined "emotion talk" among 3- and 4-year-old peers in a children's center in different contexts over the academic year. Found that the boys' group evolved norms against expression of being scared with norms downgrading girl characteristics. Boys' and girls' groups showed contextual fluidity in expressing emotion and emotion talk that…

Data from two juvenile correctional facilities indicate that the deprivation model is a better predictor of adaptation to confinement for males than is the importation model. For females, variables from both deprivation and importation models have a significant impact. (Author)

Analysis of National Youth Survey data supports a symbolic interactionist model of gender and delinquency. For both males and females, parental appraisals significantly affected youths' reflected appraisals, which in turn predicted delinquency. However, for males, parental labeling and reflected appraisals had a greater effect on delinquency, and…

Proposes that issues of gender equity are complex and cannot be addressed solely by taking a feminist post-structural approach or any one approach. Notes importance of adopting a view that embraces the wider issues surrounding gender and formulating an approach that recognizes that the socialization of boys and girls needs more than an application…

No significant sex differences are found in the mean level of either educational or occupational expectation, but the distribution of occupational choices parallels the current sex segregation of the occupational sector. Further, relative to academic achievement, females have lower expectations than males. (Author/AM)

Hypothesizes that children's behavior will be more greatly affected by a live deviant model than by information about deviant behavior, and that if both models are presented, the effect will be additive. Results supported the hypotheses. Bibliography, tables, and graph. (JB)

An interactive, biosocial model of early hominids presents evidence that physical sex differences are not the basis for the sexual division of labor as is commonly believed. Production (the deliberate collection and distribution of food) developed among early hominids as a prerequisite for survival. Although the population appears to have had…

This paper: (1) briefly reviews the existing literature which supports that female adolescents possess significantly more negative attitudes toward middle school science than do males; (2) examines the process of gender socialization in the United States to establish the socio-cultural and social psychological framework within which an attitudinal…

Systematic observations of affiliative interaction in 15 stable peer groups were conducted across three years in an urban day care center. Groups contained 193 French-speaking children ranging in age from one to six years. (Author/RH)

Presents a modified social learning theory account of the contribution of imitation to sex role development. Subjects of the two experiments described were elementary school boys and girls. (MP)