School of Education, Soochow University, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), Dushuhu Campus, No.1, Wenjing Road, 215123, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China.
BMC Psychol. 2024 Feb 26;12(1):96. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01594-z.
The development of children's gender roles in single-parent families is worthy of attention. It may be affected by family members' gender roles and parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes (PCGA). PCGA will form a consistent or inconsistent intergenerational relationship between parents and children.
This study examined the intergenerational similarities in gender roles and PCGA. Also, the intergenerational transmission of parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes (ITPCGA) in single-parent families, and the impact of various family factors on children's gender roles were comprehensively considered.
Participants were 550 single-parent parent-adolescent dyads. The Gender-role Scale and the Parental Child-rearing Gender-role Attitude Scale were used to evaluate participants' gender-role and PCGA. Chi-square tests and logistic regression analyses were used to examine the intergenerational similarities in gender roles and PCGA, and the influencing family factors of ITPCGA and children's gender roles.
The intergenerational similarities of gender role types and PCGA types existed. Both parents' gender roles and family gender pairs affected ITPCGA, father-daughter families and parents' undifferentiated and sex-typed gender roles significantly predicted undesirable ITPCGA. Family gender pair, parent's gender roles and ITPCGA types affected children's gender roles. Undesirable ITPCGA significantly predicted children's undifferentiated gender roles; father-daughter families and mother-son families, parents' undifferentiated and sex-typed gender roles significantly predicted children's sex-typed gender roles, and mother-son families and parents' reversed gender roles significantly predicted children's reversed gender role.
This study highlights the effects of single-parent family gender pairs and parents' gender roles on ITPCGA, which influences the development of children's gender roles.
单亲家庭中儿童性别角色的发展值得关注。它可能受到家庭成员的性别角色和父母育儿性别角色态度（PCGA）的影响。PCGA 将在父母和子女之间形成一致或不一致的代际关系。
本研究考察了性别角色和 PCGA 的代际相似性。还综合考虑了单亲家庭中父母育儿性别角色态度的代际传递（ITPCGA）以及各种家庭因素对儿童性别角色的影响。
参与者为 550 名单亲家长-青少年对子。使用性别角色量表和父母育儿性别角色态度量表来评估参与者的性别角色和 PCGA。使用卡方检验和逻辑回归分析来检验性别角色和 PCGA 的代际相似性，以及 ITPCGA 和儿童性别角色的影响家庭因素。
性别角色类型和 PCGA 类型存在代际相似性。父母的性别角色和家庭性别对都影响 ITPCGA，父女家庭和父母的非分化和性别类型性别角色显著预测了不理想的 ITPCGA。家庭性别对、父母的性别角色和 ITPCGA 类型影响儿童的性别角色。不理想的 ITPCGA 显著预测了儿童的非分化性别角色；父女家庭和母子家庭、父母的非分化和性别类型性别角色显著预测了儿童的性别类型性别角色，母子家庭和父母的性别反转角色显著预测了儿童的性别反转角色。
本研究强调了单亲家庭性别对和父母性别角色对 ITPCGA 的影响，这影响了儿童性别角色的发展。
