The Social Role Double Bind and the Implications for Contemporary College Students

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dc.contributor.advisorFassinger, Ruth Een_US
dc.contributor.authorAdes, Alisa Joyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-02-02T06:46:00Z
dc.date.available2005-02-02T06:46:00Z
dc.date.issued2004-12-02en_US
dc.description.abstractPast research indicates that mothers face a double bind: stay-at-home women are undervalued, and employed women are viewed as interpersonally deficient. This study examined the double bind by comparing perceptions of women and men in the same social role. College students read a brief description of a stay-at-home or employed (full-time/part-time) mother or father, rated the target on measures of instrumentality and communality, and estimated how often he/she performed nurturing behaviors. The college students also completed measures assessing their own career and family expectations. Results showed different trait perceptions of mothers and fathers in the same social role, indicating persistence of sex stereotyping and resistance to parents in nontraditional social roles. Notable effects included: employed mothers were considered significantly less nurturing than male counterparts; fathers employed part-time were rated less instrumental and more expressive than other targets; and, overall, mothers were expected to perform more nurturing behaviors, regardless of role.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/2103
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Socialen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsex stereotypesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial rolesen_US
dc.titleThe Social Role Double Bind and the Implications for Contemporary College Studentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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