부친부재 아동과 일반 아동간의 성상동형 비교 연구 = Sex-role Stereotypes in Father Absent Children

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between father absence and children's sex-role stereotypes. The subjects of this study were 36 father absent children and 40 father present boys and girls totaling 76 children. They were 13 years of age. The instrument used for this study was a questionnaire based on The Bem Sex-role Inventory. The data of the present study were analyzed by the statistical method of t-test.
The results showed a significant difference between the two groups on some items: 1) on the boys' masculinity scale, father present boys had higher scores that father absent boys on “sincere” and “faithful”; 2) on the boys' feminity scale, father present boys had higher scores than father absent boys on “help a person” but father absent boys had higher scores than father present boys on “compel”; 3) on the girl's masculinity scale, father present girls had higher scores than father absent girls on “help a person” but father absent girls had higher scores than father present girls on “happy” and “talk softly”; 4) on the girls, feminity scale, father present girls had higher scores than father absent girls on “concede”, “friendly”, “sensitive”, and “gentle”. The results were discussed in terms of proverty, the lack of sex-role model caused by father absence, and mother's change in child rearing attitude.