Developmental Stability in Gender-Typed Preferences between Infancy and Preschool Age

Autor/inn/en	Lauer, Jillian E.; Ilksoy, Sibel D.; Lourenco, Stella F.
Titel	Developmental Stability in Gender-Typed Preferences between Infancy and Preschool Age
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 4, S.613-620 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000468
Schlagwörter	Infants; Toddlers; Young Children; Gender Differences; Preferences; Longitudinal Studies; Toys; Predictor Variables; Child Development; Questionnaires; Visual Stimuli; Likert Scales; Play; Preschool Children; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Frühe Kindheit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Toy; Spielzeug; Prädiktor; Kindesentwicklung; Fragebogen; Likert-Skala; Spiel; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Infants exhibit visual preferences for gender-typed objects (e.g., dolls, toy vehicles) that parallel the gender-typed play preferences of preschool-aged children, but the developmental stability of individual differences in early emerging gender-typed preferences has not yet been characterized. In the present study, we examined the longitudinal association between infants' (N = 51) performance on an object-preference task, administered between 6 and 13 months of age, and their play preferences at 4 years of age. Greater visual interest in a toy truck relative to a doll in infancy predicted significantly greater male-typical toy and activity preferences (e.g., play with vehicles, videogames) at age 4. These findings suggest that gender-typed object preferences present during the 1st year of life may represent the developmental precursors of gender-typed play preferences observed later in childhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01