The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors affecting the crises of sex-role identity of the later childhood students and finally to give more information for desirable sex-education.
The data were collected from randomly sampled 749 ...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors affecting the crises of sex-role identity of the later childhood students and finally to give more information for desirable sex-education.
The data were collected from randomly sampled 749 students and 626 their parents and 386 teachers in Seoul, Kyungsangbukdo, considering the region and analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.
The research problems were as follows:
1. Are there any differences on the crises of sex-role identity in terms of sex-differences?
2. Are there any differences on the crises of sex-role identity in terms of personal characteristics?
3. Are there any differences on the crises of sex-role identity in terms of peers's reactions?
4. Are there any differences on the crises of sex-role identity in terms of teacher's sex-role attitudes?
5. Are there any differences on the crises of sex-role identity in terms of home environmental factors?
The results of the research were as follows:
1. There emerged remarkable contrast on the crises of sex-role identity in terms of sex-differences. that is, girls tended to perceive their sex-type as crisis factors higher than boys.
2. From perspectives of personal characteristics, girls tended to perceive their external features as crisis factors higher than boys, while no differences found in accordance with characteritics.
3. Taken altogether, boys tended toward traditional sex-role attitudes than girls. Therefore, girls perceived peers's reactions as crisis factors higher than boys.
4. Though male teachers tended toward traditional sex-role attitudes, no significant interaction effects were found on the crises of sex-role identity that students perceived.
5. In the light of home environmental factors,
a. The more fathers tended toward traditional sex-role attitudes, the more their children tended to come up to a crisis of sex-role identity.
b. No students tended to perceive their father-absence as crisis factors of sex-role identity.
c. Cross-siblings tended to perceive the most on the crises and only child tended to perceive the least, while no differences were found in terms of birth order.
d. Students of working mothers tended to perceive more on the crises of sex-role identity than students whose mothers remained at home.
e. Students from mother-dominant homes tended to perceive the most on the crises of sex-role identity.