Relationship between Gender Conception and Gender-Related Awareness and Experiences in Adolescents

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  • 高校生のジェンダーをめぐる意識
  • コウコウセイ ノ ジェンダー オ メグル イシキ

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This study is to investigate if the gender conception as a cognitive frame is associated with other gender-related awareness and experiences, and to prove whether the gender conception can be used as a measure of gender schema. High school students, 747 females and 726 males, were asked of their gender conception, consciousness of the opposite sex, evaluation of own sex, experiences in and causal attribution of awareness of sex/gender differences. The results showed that the weaker gender conception is related with the following factors: (a) rare experiences in their life to aware the gender difference in internal characteristics; (b) little interest in the opposite sex and little concern on how they might be looked upon by them; (c) the causal attribution of discrimination against females to the society at large; and (d) admittance of their androgynous tendency. The weak gender conception was therefore, associated with a non-sex typed awareness and experiences. As the result, the Scale of Gender Conception was considered to have a construct validity as a measure of gender schema.

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