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Comparison of intergenerational transmission of gender roles between single-parent families and two-parent families: The influence of parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes

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  • Yang, Mengping
  • Chen, I-Jun
  • Song, Yunping
  • Wang, Xiaoxiao

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The characteristics of parents' gender roles directly impact the children's gender roles, thus forming intergenerational transmission of gender roles (ITGR). Based on the bioecological theory, this study conducted a paired survey of adolescents (generation 2 [G2]) and their parents (generation 1 [G1]), and explored the ITGR in different family structures, examining the influence mechanism of various factors in the family microsystem on ITGR. Results: Both in single-parent families and two-parent families, the distribution of gender-role types of G2 is similar to that of G1, and the distribution of undifferentiated and androgyny in the two generations is bipolar. In single-parent families, the proportion of undifferentiated is the highest in both G1 and G2, and is significantly higher than that in two-parent families. In two-parent families, the proportion of androgyny is the highest in both G1 and G2, which is significantly higher than that of single-parent families. Family socioeconomic status, family structure, and parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes as three family environment factors, as well as the gender and age of children as two individual factors, significantly influence ITGR. The mediating analysis shows parental child-rearing gender-role attitude plays a mediating role in the influence of family structure on ITGR.

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  • Yang, Mengping & Chen, I-Jun & Song, Yunping & Wang, Xiaoxiao, 2021. "Comparison of intergenerational transmission of gender roles between single-parent families and two-parent families: The influence of parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:125:y:2021:i:c:s0190740921000645
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.105985
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