Department of Psychology.
Emory School of Medicine, Emory University.
Dev Psychol. 2018 Apr;54(4):613-620. doi: 10.1037/dev0000468. Epub 2017 Nov 20.
Infants exhibit visual preferences for gender-typed objects (e.g., dolls, toy vehicles) that parallel the gender-typed play preferences of preschool-aged children, but the developmental stability of individual differences in early emerging gender-typed preferences has not yet been characterized. In the present study, we examined the longitudinal association between infants' (N = 51) performance on an object-preference task, administered between 6 and 13 months of age, and their play preferences at 4 years of age. Greater visual interest in a toy truck relative to a doll in infancy predicted significantly greater male-typical toy and activity preferences (e.g., play with vehicles, videogames) at age 4. These findings suggest that gender-typed object preferences present during the 1st year of life may represent the developmental precursors of gender-typed play preferences observed later in childhood. (PsycINFO Database Record
婴儿表现出对性别类型化物体（如娃娃、玩具车）的视觉偏好，这与学龄前儿童的性别类型化游戏偏好相平行，但个体差异在早期出现的性别类型化偏好中的发展稳定性尚未得到描述。在本研究中，我们考察了婴儿（N=51）在 6 至 13 个月大时进行的物体偏好任务的表现与他们在 4 岁时的游戏偏好之间的纵向关联。婴儿时期对玩具卡车相对于娃娃的视觉兴趣越大，预测 4 岁时更典型的男性玩具和活动偏好（例如玩车辆、电子游戏）的可能性就越大。这些发现表明，生命的第一年中出现的性别类型化物体偏好可能代表了在儿童后期观察到的性别类型化游戏偏好的发展前兆。
