The Embodiment of Gender in Childhood

Tervooren, Anja

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93001-1_15

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“…However, other crucial values, such as gender egalitarianism, have been neglected in value-prosocial development bidirectional linkages. Recent studies indicate that adolescents show increasing differentiation between outgroups and ingroups [3], of which gender is an obvious basis of group differentiation [8,9], which may become a latent premise of gender bias [10], and thus gender inequality. It is satisfying to note that prosocial behavior is an important way to eliminate bias toward outgroups [11].…”

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Bidirectional Relationship between Adolescent Gender Egalitarianism and Prosocial Behavior

Fu,

Chang

et al. 2024

Behavioral Sciences

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This study investigates the bidirectional associations between gender egalitarianism and prosocial behavior in adolescents, and the moderating effect of gender in the associations, as well as gender differences and longitudinal changes in both. We recruited 543 Chinese adolescents (284 girls, 259 boys; mean age at Time 1 = 11.27 years) and collected three waves of data measuring gender egalitarianism and prosocial behavior at one-year intervals. According to the results, girls expressed greater gender egalitarianism than boys did; girls reported more prosocial behavior than boys in the sixth grade, but there were no significant gender differences in the seventh and eighth grades. Adolescents’ gender egalitarianism stayed stable from the sixth to the seventh grade then increased from the seventh to the eighth grade, and there was a decrease in prosocial behavior from the sixth to the seventh grade. More importantly, the results of the multi-group cross-lagged panel model revealed that adolescents’ gender egalitarianism in the previous year positively predicted prosocial behavior in the next year, and vice versa; such bidirectional associations equally applied to boys and girls. These findings add to the knowledge of adolescent gender egalitarianism and prosocial behavior, and the dynamic interplay between the two.

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