The link between early adolescents' gender discrimination and gender attitudes about peers: Does gender similarity matter?

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

British Journal of Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI:10.1111/bjdp.12492

Sonya Xinyue Xiao, Flóra Faragó, Erin T. Clancy, Anne J. Maheux, Kasandra Bermúdez

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Abstract

Gender is one of the most salient social identities, particularly during early adolescence. However, factors related to adolescents' gender attitudes remain underexamined. We examined links between adolescents' gender discrimination, felt‐gender similarity, and intergroup gender attitudes. Participants were 270 adolescents in the United States (Mage = 12.95 years, SD = 1.33; 47.4% adolescent girls; 63.7% White, 12.2% Latinx, 10.7% Black, 4.1% Asian, 5.6% multiracial, and 3% indigenous). Path analyses showed that gender discrimination negatively predicted adolescents' attitudes towards own‐ and other‐gender peers. Felt own‐gender similarity positively predicted own‐gender attitudes as expected, but other‐gender similarity did not predict other‐gender attitudes. Further, own‐ and other‐gender similarity did not interact to predict adolescents' gender attitudes. However, adolescents' attitudes towards other‐gender peers were more negatively impacted by gender discrimination for those who felt highly similar to own‐gender peers than for those with average or low own‐gender similarity. Findings inform potential strategies to improve adolescents' gender attitudes.

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早期青少年的性别歧视与对同伴的性别态度之间的联系：性别相似性重要吗？

性别是最突出的社会身份之一，尤其是在青春期早期。然而，与青少年性别态度相关的因素仍未得到充分研究。我们研究了青少年的性别歧视、感觉到的性别相似性和群体间性别态度之间的联系。参与者为美国的 270 名青少年（平均年龄 = 12.95 岁，标准差 = 1.33；47.4% 为少女；63.7% 为白人，12.2% 为拉丁裔，10.7% 为黑人，4.1% 为亚裔，5.6% 为多种族，3% 为原住民）。路径分析显示，性别歧视会对青少年对待同性和异性同伴的态度产生负面影响。正如预期的那样，感觉到的自身性别相似性会对自身性别态度产生积极的预测作用，但其他性别相似性并不会对其他性别态度产生预测作用。此外，自身性别相似性和其他性别相似性在预测青少年的性别态度方面没有相互作用。然而，与自身性别相似度一般或较低的青少年相比，那些与自身性别相似度较高的青少年对其他性别同伴的态度更容易受到性别歧视的负面影响。研究结果为改善青少年性别态度的潜在策略提供了参考。

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British Journal of Developmental Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Developmental Psychology publishes full-length, empirical, conceptual, review and discussion papers, as well as brief reports, in all of the following areas: - motor, perceptual, cognitive, social and emotional development in infancy; - social, emotional and personality development in childhood, adolescence and adulthood; - cognitive and socio-cognitive development in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, including the development of language, mathematics, theory of mind, drawings, spatial cognition, biological and societal understanding; - atypical development, including developmental disorders, learning difficulties/disabilities and sensory impairments;