TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender role identity and gender intensification
T2 - Agency and communion in adolescents’ spontaneous self-descriptions
AU - Korlat Ikanovic, Selma
AU - Först, Nora Maria
AU - Schultes, Marie-Therese
AU - Schober, Barbara
AU - Spiel, Christiane
AU - Kollmayer, Marlene
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In line with gender stereotypes, girls are expected to take on communal roles and boys to take on agentic roles. Based on gender intensification theory, the present cross-sectional study investigated girls’ and boys’ gender role identity and corresponding age differences across adolescence using the spontaneous self-description method. In total, 3423 adolescents aged between 11 and 15 years were asked to describe themselves with three attributes later coded in terms of agency and communion. ANOVA results showed expected but small gender differences in agency and communion, and no evidence for gender intensification. Moreover, significant gender differences were found in only 17% of the named attributes. The results thus indicate greater gender similarities than gender differences in adolescents’ self-descriptions.
AB - In line with gender stereotypes, girls are expected to take on communal roles and boys to take on agentic roles. Based on gender intensification theory, the present cross-sectional study investigated girls’ and boys’ gender role identity and corresponding age differences across adolescence using the spontaneous self-description method. In total, 3423 adolescents aged between 11 and 15 years were asked to describe themselves with three attributes later coded in terms of agency and communion. ANOVA results showed expected but small gender differences in agency and communion, and no evidence for gender intensification. Moreover, significant gender differences were found in only 17% of the named attributes. The results thus indicate greater gender similarities than gender differences in adolescents’ self-descriptions.
KW - Agency
KW - adolescents
KW - communion
KW - gender role identity
KW - stereotypes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098617774&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17405629.2020.1865143
DO - 10.1080/17405629.2020.1865143
M3 - Article
VL - 19
SP - 64
EP - 88
JO - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
JF - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
SN - 1740-5629
IS - 1
ER -