FATHER DOMINANCE AND SEX-ROLE DEVELOPMENT IN KINDERGARTEN-AGE BOYS

Explored the relationship among 186 kindergarten boys' perceptions of their fathers' dominance, their fathers' dominance in father-mother interaction, and different aspects of the boys' sex-role development. 3 aspects of sex role were considered: orientation (self-perception of maleness and/or femaleness), preference (the individual's preferential set toward socially defined representations of sex role), and adoption (the individual's masculinity and/or femininity as viewed by members of his society). The results suggested that father dominance influences different aspects of sex role to varying degrees (orientation the most, adoption the least) and that the boy's perception of his father's relative dominance is more related to the boy's masculine development than the degree of his father's dominance in father-mother interaction. (22 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.