Assessment of androgyny in children

K. Zucker, Helen Torkos
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Androgyny as a sex-role type has been studied extensively in adults but hardly at all in children. In the present study, children in Kindergarten through Grade 2 were administered a sex-role preference test in such a way that masculine and feminine scores could be derived independently. As a test of concurrent validity, the children's masculine and feminine preference scores were correlated with a parent-report measure of sex-typing. Both the child and parent measures showed strong sex differences in the types of stimuli preferred. Significant correlations were found between the parent and child measures for girls, but not for boys. Based on their masculine and feminine scores, children were classified as androgynous, masculine, feminine, or undifferentiated. The "absolute midpoint" method of sex-role classification placed the majority of boys in the masculine category (83%) and the majority of girls in the feminine category (79%); 9% of the boys and 18% of the girls were classified as androgynous. This method of classification yielded results similar to the more commonly used "between-sex" median split procedure, but differed sharply from the "within-sex" median split method, which yielded a more even distribution of children across the four sex-role types. The results were discussed with respect to a number of methodological issues in the measurement of androgyny in children.
儿童雌雄同体的评估
雌雄同体作为一种性别角色类型已经在成人中得到了广泛的研究,但在儿童中却几乎没有。在本研究中,对幼儿园至二年级的儿童进行了性别角色偏好测试,以使男性和女性的得分可以独立得出。作为并发效度的测试,儿童的男性和女性偏好得分与父母报告的性别分型测量相关。孩子和父母的测试结果都显示,在偏好的刺激类型上存在强烈的性别差异。在女孩的父母和孩子之间发现了显著的相关性,但在男孩身上没有。根据他们的男性和女性得分,儿童被分为雌雄同体、男性化、女性化或无差别。性别角色分类的“绝对中点”方法将大多数男孩(83%)和大多数女孩(79%)划分为男性化类别;9%的男孩和18%的女孩被归类为雌雄同体。这种分类方法产生的结果与更常用的“性别间”中位数分割方法相似,但与“性别内”中位数分割方法截然不同,后者产生的四种性别角色类型的儿童分布更为均匀。讨论了测量儿童雌雄同体的一些方法学问题的结果。
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