Androgyny as a Predictor of Disclosure to Parents.

Autor/inn/en	Forst, Edmund, Jr.; Beatty, Michael J.
Titel	Androgyny as a Predictor of Disclosure to Parents.
Quelle	(1987), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Androgyny; Communication Research; Interaction; Interpersonal Communication; Mental Health; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Influence; Personality Traits; Predictor Variables; Self Concept; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Self Expression; Sex Differences; Sex Role; Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kommunikationsforschung; Interaktion; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Psychohygiene; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Prädiktor; Selbstkonzept; Ausdruck; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Geschlechterrolle
Abstract	A study proposed a predictive model to explain self-disclosure to parents based on biological sex of subject and perceived psychological sex typing of the parent. It was hypothesized that: (1) the linear combination of biological sex type of subject and subjects perception of mother (psychological scores) would significantly predict self-disclosure scores to an individual's mother, and (2) the linear combination of biological sex type and perception of father (psychological score) would significantly predict self-disclosure scores to an individual's father. Subjects, 184 undergraduate students, completed two scales, Jourard's Self-Disclosure Scale (JSDQ 60) and the revised Bem's Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), in response to a target parent, either father or mother. Results suggest that a two-variable predictive model of disclosure to parents can be developed based on biological sex of subject and perceived psychological sex typing of the parent. In Model 1, biological sex of the discloser and both feminine and masculine traits of the mother accounted for some of the variance in self-disclosure scores, indicating that biological sex is influential in disclosure to the mother. Findings for Model 2 indicate that the perceived psychological sex type of the father accounted for a quarter of the variance in self-disclosure scores, suggesting that biological sex does not significantly influence disclosure to an individual's father. Although biological and perceived psychological sex typing cannot account for 100% of the variance in self-disclosure scores, the present study demonstrates a statistically significant theoretical relationship to self-disclosure actually experienced in communication between parent and child. (NKA)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC