{"title":"Agency and communion ratings do not suggest shifting gender norms in American Society: A registered report","authors":"Azriel Grysman , Jordan A. Booker","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104493","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Gender role scales measure concepts related to agency and communion as masculine- and feminine-typed traits. However, previous findings showed that 18-to-29-year-old women and men did not differ on a scale of communion, whereas 30–40-year-old women and men did. This study attempted to replicate these findings and to expand to a lifespan sample 10 years after initial data collection to clarify whether interactions by age support developmental and/or cohort-related trends for gender and communion. Results contradict a cohort explanation, and in fact show a weaker interaction between age and gender than prior studies. We conclude that mean gender differences are broadly stable across the lifespan, though they are somewhat weaker in emerging adult years, suggesting a small developmental effect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Research in Personality","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656624000412","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Gender role scales measure concepts related to agency and communion as masculine- and feminine-typed traits. However, previous findings showed that 18-to-29-year-old women and men did not differ on a scale of communion, whereas 30–40-year-old women and men did. This study attempted to replicate these findings and to expand to a lifespan sample 10 years after initial data collection to clarify whether interactions by age support developmental and/or cohort-related trends for gender and communion. Results contradict a cohort explanation, and in fact show a weaker interaction between age and gender than prior studies. We conclude that mean gender differences are broadly stable across the lifespan, though they are somewhat weaker in emerging adult years, suggesting a small developmental effect.
期刊介绍:
Emphasizing experimental and descriptive research, the Journal of Research in Personality presents articles that examine important issues in the field of personality and in related fields basic to the understanding of personality. The subject matter includes treatments of genetic, physiological, motivational, learning, perceptual, cognitive, and social processes of both normal and abnormal kinds in human and animal subjects. Features: • Papers that present integrated sets of studies that address significant theoretical issues relating to personality. • Theoretical papers and critical reviews of current experimental and methodological interest. • Single, well-designed studies of an innovative nature. • Brief reports, including replication or null result studies of previously reported findings, or a well-designed studies addressing questions of limited scope.