Newcombe N, Dubas J S
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122.
Child Dev. 1992 Feb;63(1):37-46.
This study examined the longitudinal predictability of spatial ability in late-adolescent females by retesting 11-year-old girls studied by Newcombe and Bandura at age 16. Spatial ability at age 16 was predicted longitudinally from masculinity of the ideal self on a scale of intellectually relevant attributes at age 11, wanting to be a boy at age 11, and, negatively, by feminine expressivity at age 11. No timing of puberty or lateralization effects were observed. The findings strengthen evidence that sex-related differences in spatial ability could be experientially determined, and help to focus the search for exactly how this occurs. The findings also cast doubt on the idea that sex-related differences in spatial ability could be caused by sex differences in timing of puberty or lateralization, although other biological mechanisms remain plausible.
本研究通过对纽科姆和班杜拉在11岁时研究过的女孩在16岁时进行重新测试，考察了青春期晚期女性空间能力的纵向可预测性。16岁时的空间能力可从11岁时在智力相关属性量表上理想自我的男性化程度、11岁时想成为男孩的愿望，以及消极方面，由11岁时的女性表现力纵向预测。未观察到青春期时间或大脑半球优势化效应。这些发现强化了空间能力方面与性别相关的差异可能由经验决定的证据，并有助于集中探索这种情况究竟是如何发生的。这些发现也对空间能力方面与性别相关的差异可能由青春期时间或大脑半球优势化的性别差异所导致的观点提出了质疑，尽管其他生物学机制仍然合理。
