Social Roles Contribute to Age and Sex Stereotypes.

Autor/inn/en	Turner, Barbara Formaniak; und weitere
Titel	Social Roles Contribute to Age and Sex Stereotypes.
Quelle	(1995), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; College Students; Higher Education; Racial Factors; Role; Role Perception; Role Theory; Sex Stereotypes; Social Cognition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Rollen; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; Rollentheorie; Soziale Kognition
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to test hypotheses drawn from the social role model about the process that people use in deciding what other people are like, focusing on the difference that other people's age, race, and sex make. A sample of non-Latino White students (N=671) ranging in age from 18 to 81 years used the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) to rate a person in one of 12 target groups (a race-unspecified or African-American woman or man in their late 20s, late 40s or late 60s). Race-unspecified targets were almost always seen as non-Latino Whites. Old persons and women were seen as significantly more communal and less agentic in personality than younger adults and men, respectively. When students' estimates of the likelihood that the target they were rating was retired was controlled, the main effect for age of target in communal traits disappeared. This finding supports the interpretation that age stereotypes partly stem from perceivers' observations of people's social roles. (Author/JBJ)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01