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Study looks at family predictors of girls' sex-typed activities.
2004 OCT 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Free time activities of children and adolescents are important because they provide a forum for learning new skills and set the stage for identity development, researchers say.
To better understand girls' choices of how to spend their time, S.M. McHale at Pennsylvania State University, and colleagues tracked 290 white, working- and middle-class girls who ranged in age from 8 to 15 at the beginning of our study.
The researchers studied the time the girls spent in stereotypically masculine (sports, model building, hunting and fishing) and feminine (art, music, dance) activities over a 2-year period, exploring any characteristics of the girls and their parents that predicted the girls' involvement in sex-typed activities.
Specifically, girls' and parents' gender role attitudes, sex-typed personality qualities, and sex-typed free time interests were measured during annual home interviews. McHale and team also collected saliva samples to measure the girls' levels of testosterone, a male hormone that typically increases from middle childhood though adolescence in both girls and boys. To learn more about girls' activities, in each year of the study the researchers called the girls on seven evenings and asked about their activities during that day.
According to their report in Child Development [Developmental and individual differences in girls' sex-typed activities in middle childhood and adolescence. Child Dev, 2004;75(5)]:
* Girls' time in masculine activities increased in early adolescence until about age 13, then declined through age 17.
* Girls' time in feminine activities was highest at age 9, then declined in early and middle adolescence.
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