Do Swedish mothers have sex-stereotyped expectations and wishes regarding their own children?

Servin, Anna; Bohlin, Gunilla

doi:10.1002/(sici)1522-7219(199912)8:4<197::aid-icd198>3.0.co;2-h

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“…There is some evidence to support this claim. One cross-sectional study among Swedish mothers found that parents of 5-year-olds described their children as less rough than parents of younger children expected for their children at the age of 5 years ( Servin and Bohlin, 1999 ). This finding indicated that parents’ expectations may partly depend on their own children’s preferences and characteristics, despite expecting different behaviors when individuating information about their child at that age was not available.…”

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Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children

Portengen,

van Baar,

Endendijk

2024

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Gender stereotypes facilitate people’s processing of social information by providing assumptions about expected behaviors and preferences. When gendered expectations are violated, people often respond negatively, both on a behavioral and neural level. Little is known about the impact of family kinship on the behavioral and neural reactions to gender-stereotype violations. Therefore, we examined whether parents show different responses when gender stereotypes are violated by their own children versus unknown children. The sample comprised 74 Dutch families with a father (Mage = 37.54), mother (Mage = 35.83), son and daughter aged 3-6 years. Electro-encephalography (EEG) measurements were obtained while parents viewed pictures of their own and unknown children paired with toy or problem behavior words that violated or confirmed gender stereotypes. In half of the trials, parents evaluated the appropriateness of toy-gender and behavior-gender combinations. Parents showed stronger LPP amplitudes toward gender stereotype-violating behaviors by own children compared to unknown children. Moreover, parents’ P1 responses toward gender stereotype-violating child behaviors were stronger for boys than for girls, and for parents who evaluated gender-stereotype violations as less appropriate than gender-stereotype confirmations. The findings indicated that gender-stereotype violations by parents’ own children are particularly salient and viewed as less appropriate than gender-stereotype confirmations.

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Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children

Portengen,

van Baar,

Endendijk

2024

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Children?s Toy Collections in Sweden?A Less Gender-Typed Country?

Nelson

2005

Sex Roles

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The aim of this study was to describe and analyze differences between girls' and boys' toy collections in a country that strongly emphasizes gender equality (Sweden). The study was based on the assumptions that toy collections reflect social values in the society where they are found and that Sweden has less gendered values than do many other countries. The toy collections of 152 3-and 5-year old Swedish children were inventoried, and the results were analyzed and discussed in relation to previous research on children's toy collections and toy preferences in North America and Western Europe. The Swedish toy collections were found to be gender-typed in ways similar to those reported in previous research in other countries.

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Prenatal androgens and gender-typed behavior: A study of girls with mild and severe forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

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Nordenström²,

Larsson³

et al. 2003

Developmental Psychology

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Gender-typed behaviors and interests were investigated in 26 girls, aged 2-10 years, affected with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and in 26 unaffected girls matched for age. Girls with CAH were more interested in masculine toys and less interested in feminine toys and were more likely to report having male playmates and to wish for masculine careers. Parents of girls with CAH rated their daughters' behaviors as more boylike than did parents of unaffected girls. A relation was found between disease severity and behavior indicating that more severely affected CAH girls were more interested in masculine toys and careers. No parental influence could be demonstrated on play behavior, nor did the comparison of parents' ratings of wished for behavior versus perceived behavior in their daughters indicate an effect of parental expectations. The results are interpreted as supporting a biological contribution to differences in play behavior between girls with and without CAH.

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Do Swedish mothers have sex-stereotyped expectations and wishes regarding their own children?

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children

Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children

Children?s Toy Collections in Sweden?A Less Gender-Typed Country?

Prenatal androgens and gender-typed behavior: A study of girls with mild and severe forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

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