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Direct linkUpdegraff, Kimberly A.; Perez-Brena, Norma J.; Baril, Megan E.; McHale, Susan M.; Umana-Taylor, Adriana J. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
Using latent profile analysis, the authors examined patterns of mother-father involvement in adolescents' peer relationships along three dimensions--support, guidance, and restrictions--in 240 Mexican-origin families. Three profiles were identified: (a) High Mother Involvement (mothers higher than fathers on all three dimensions), (b) High…
Descriptors: Profiles, Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Intimacy
Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Umana-Taylor, Adriana J.; McHale, Susan M.; Wheeler, Lorey A.; Perez-Brena, Norma J. – Child Development, 2012
Drawing from developmental and cultural adaptation perspectives and using a longitudinal design, this study examined: (a) mean-level changes in Mexican-origin adolescents' cultural orientations and adjustment from early to late adolescence and (b) bidirectional associations between cultural orientations and adjustment using a cross-lag panel…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Acculturation
Crouter, Ann C.; Whiteman, Shawn D.; McHale, Susan M.; Osgood, D. Wayne – Child Development, 2007
The development of gender attitudes in 402 youth (201 firstborn and 201 secondborn siblings) in 201 European American families was examined using data collected on seven occasions across 9 years. Pooling across siblings and using multilevel modeling, we examined gender attitude development from ages 7 to 19. Consistent with an ecological…
Descriptors: Siblings, Birth Order, Sex Role, Gender Issues
Peer reviewedMcHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
Examined incongruencies between spouses' sex-role attitudes and division of family work and links with marital evaluations and family characteristics. Findings from 153 couples revealed that wives with nontraditional sex-role attitudes but traditional family work roles and husbands with traditional attitudes but egalitarian roles evaluated…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Congruence (Psychology), Family Characteristics, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedMcHale, Susan M.; Huston, Ted L. – Child Development, 1984
A longitudinal study examined the connection between mothers' and fathers' sex role orientations and employment situations and the parents' involvement in child-oriented activities. Reported are interrelations among measures of husbands' and wives' sex role orientations, association between sex role attributes and extent of participation in the…
Descriptors: Fathers, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
Peer reviewedMcHale, Susan M.; Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Helms- Erikson, Heather; Crouter, Ann C. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Examined development of gender role qualities from middle childhood to early adolescence to determine whether children's gender role qualities predicted siblings'. Found that firstborn children's qualities in Year 1 predicted second-born children's qualities in Year 3 when Year 1 parent and child qualities were controlled. Parental influence was…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Early Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
McHale, Susan M.; Kim, Ji-Yeon; Whiteman, Shawn; Crouter, Ann C. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
The authors studied sex-typing in the kinds (e.g., sports, handicrafts) and social contexts (same- vs. other-sex companions) of children's free time activities, and the links between sex-typed activities and gender development over 2 years. Participants were 200 White, working- and middle-class children (103 girls, 97 boys; mean age = 10.86…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sex Role, Early Adolescents, Sex Stereotypes
Peer reviewedTucker, Corinna Jenkins; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Family Relations, 2003
Explores mothers' and fathers' differential treatment (PDT) of their adolescent offspring and examines how siblings' personal qualities were associated with PDT. Sex was associated with parents' differential temporal involvement. Sex-typed personal qualities were related to parents' differential discipline. Both sex and sex-typed personal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Birth Order
Peer reviewedMcHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C.; Tucker, Corinna J. – Child Development, 1999
Examined sex-typing in child personality, interests, and activities as function of traditionality of parents' gender role attitudes and sex composition of sibling dyads. Found that sex-typing was most evident in children's interests and activities. Differences in children's sex-typing as a function of fathers' attitudes and sibling sex…
Descriptors: Activities, Childhood Interests, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedMcHale, Susan M.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Examined the implications of sex-typed housework of children from dual- and single-earner families for children's adjustment as a function of congruencies between children's work and parents' sex-role behaviors and attitudes. Analyses revealed differences in sex and earner status in children's and parents' involvement in traditionally feminine and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Comparative Analysis, Employed Parents
Peer reviewedBumpus, Matthew F.; Crouter, Ann C.; McHale, Susan M. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Investigated ways in which indicators of parental autonomy granting (decision-making input and parental knowledge of adolescents' daily experiences) differed as a function of context and personal qualities. Found that firstborns were granted more autonomy than second borns, especially in families with firstborn girls and second-born boys. Girls in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Birth Order
Peer reviewedCrouter, Ann C.; Head, Melissa R.; Bumpus, Matthew F.; McHale, Susan M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Levels of involvement in household work were compared for sibling pairs in 172 families. In families where mothers had high work demands, daughters performed significantly more work than sons, and younger sisters did more work than older brothers. The gap in siblings' gender role attitudes was significantly greater in families wherein girls…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daughters, Employed Parents, Family (Sociological Unit)
