Parents’ Child-rearing Sex-role Attitudes and Its Relationship with Their Gender Schematicity

Objective:To explore the characteristics of parental child-rearing sex-role attitudes towards children aged 3-to 8-year old and its relationship with their gender schematicity.Methods: 349 children’s parents were examined by the Parental Child-rearing Sex-role Attitudes Scale and the Bem’s Sex Role Inventory.Results: ①Fathers’ and mothers’ scores on the Parental Child-rearing Sex-role Attitudes Scale were both significantly higher than the medians of the scale,and there was no significant differences between fathers’ and mothers’ scores.②Girls’ fathers and mothers scored both significantly higher than boys’ fathers and mothers on the Parental Child-rearing Sex-role Attitudes Scale.③There were no significant differences among different age groups.④Gender schematic parents scored significantly lower than gender aschematic parents on the Parental Child-rearing Sex-role Attitudes Scale.Conclusion: On the whole,the child-rearing gender-role attitudes of parents tend to be nontraditional,but parents’ child-rearing gender-role attitudes vary with children’s gender and their own gender schematicity.