2011 Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 1-12
The purpose of the present study was to investigate gender-related socialization within the family, focusing on: (1) whether parents' discipline to their children differed depending on children's sex, and parents' sex-typed disciplines were related of children's sex-typed disciplines, (2) parents' gender-related view of child-raising differed, and (3) parents' expectations to their every child differed depending on the sibling structure. A questionnaire was administered to 119 mothers and 79 fathers. The main results of the analyses were as follows: (1) Both of grandmothers and parents expected their sons to have agentic traits, and their daughters to have communal traits, and their children almost realized their parents' expectations. In contrast, if their grandmothers expected their sons to have communal traits, and their daughters to have agentic traits, their children hardly met their parents' expectations. (2) Fathers expected that mothers should carry more burden of child-raising than them. (3) Parents’ sex-typed disciplines were influenced by patriarchy, and sex-typed disciplines were salient in sex-mixed sibling structures.
