Gender Labels on Gender-Neutral Colors: Do they Affect Children’s Color Preferences and Play Performance?

Yeung, Sui Ping; Wong, Wai Keung

doi:10.1007/s11199-017-0875-3

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“…Further research may also explore how attempts to encourage boys and girls to engage more in gender-atypical play may affect subsequent occupational interests and choice. It has been suggested that reducing gender labels and gender-typed color coding may increase boys’ and girls’ interest in a wider range of toys, activities, and peer interactions (Hilliard & Liben, 2010 ; Weisgram et al, 2014 ; Wong & Hines, 2015 ; Yeung & Wong, 2018 ). Considering the importance of childhood play behavior in developing personal characteristics, skills, self-perception, and self-socialization, these strategies may reduce gender differences in occupation-related outcomes by creating more diverse learning opportunities for boys and girls and by helping them develop more flexible conceptions about gender typicality.…”

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Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior Predicts Adolescent Gender-Typed Occupational Interests: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study

Kung

2021

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There are significant gender differences in both play behavior and occupational interests. Play has been regarded as an important medium for development of skills and personal characteristics. Play may also influence subsequent preferences through social and cognitive processes involved in gender development. The present study investigated the association between gender-typed play behavior in early childhood and gender-typed occupational interests in early adolescence. Participants were drawn from a British longitudinal population study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Participants were recruited based on their parent-reported gender-typed play behavior assessed at age 3.5 years. There were 66 masculine boys and 61 masculine girls, 82 feminine boys and 69 feminine girls, and 55 randomly selected control boys and 67 randomly selected control girls. At age 13 years, the participants were administered a questionnaire assessing their interest in gender-typed occupations. It was found that masculine children showed significantly more interest in male-typical occupations than did control or feminine children. Compared with control children, feminine children had marginally significantly lower interest in male-typical jobs. Masculine children also had significantly lower interest in female-typical jobs than did control or feminine children. The associations were not moderated by gender and were observed after taking into account sociodemographic background, parental occupations, and academic performance. The degree of gender-typed play shown by preschoolers can predict their occupational interests 10 years later following transition into adolescence. Childhood gender-typed play has occupational implications that transcend developmental stages.

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Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior Predicts Adolescent Gender-Typed Occupational Interests: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study

Kung

2021

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“…If gendered colours are shaped by cultural experience, gender differences in colour preferences might differ between societies. A recent study in China showed that 5-8 year-old girls preferred pink over blue whereas boys preferred blue over pink (Yeung & Wong, 2018). Adult women in Saudi Arabia, China, India, and Papua New Guinea also preferred reddish-pinkish or purple hues to a greater extent than did men (Al-Rasheed, 2015;Bonnardel et al, 2017;He et al, 2011;Sorokowski et al, 2014;Witzel, 2015).…”

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Pink for Girls, Red for Boys, and Blue for Both Genders: Colour Preferences in Children and Adults

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“…In addition, a substantial number of trials per pair were included to improve validity. Furthermore, we used a range of items with a range of colors as gender-typed colors have been shown to affect preschool children's toy preferences (Weisgram, Fulcher, & Dinella, 2014;Yeung & Wong, 2018), thus improving the generalizability of results.…”

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Factors affecting infant toy preferences: Age, gender, experience, motor development, and parental attitude

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Quattropani

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In contrast to the anecdotal claim that “male infants like cars and female infants like dolls,” previous studies have reported mixed findings for gender‐related toy preferences in infancy. In Experiment 1, we explored the emergence of gender‐related preferences using face–car pairs (Experiment 1a, n = 51, 6–20 months) or face–stove pairs (Experiment 1b, n = 54, 6–20 months). In Experiment 2 (n = 42, 14–16 months), we explore the effect of toy properties, infants' past toy exposure, activity levels, and parental attitudes on such preferences using a wider range of toys. For both studies, infants demonstrated a general preference for faced stimuli over other objects, except for male infants who showed no preference between dolls and cars at around 15 months. Infants' prior experience participating in motor‐intensive activities, with wheeled toys and parental attitudes appeared to relate to female infants' preferences for dynamic toys. These results indicate a range of factors influence gendered toy preferences and suggest that nurture plays an important role.

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Gender Labels on Gender-Neutral Colors: Do they Affect Children’s Color Preferences and Play Performance?

Cited by 41 publications

References 72 publications

Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior Predicts Adolescent Gender-Typed Occupational Interests: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study

Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior Predicts Adolescent Gender-Typed Occupational Interests: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study

Pink for Girls, Red for Boys, and Blue for Both Genders: Colour Preferences in Children and Adults

Factors affecting infant toy preferences: Age, gender, experience, motor development, and parental attitude

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