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Boy and girl models8/22/2023 ![]() We focused on gender role attitudes because of the extensive changes in gender ideologies within the US in recent decades ( Fortin, 2005). ![]() Using interview data on US families, we aimed: (1) to identify distinct family patterns of gender role attitudes of mothers, fathers, and two adolescent siblings using cluster analysis (2) to explore the conditions under which different family patterns emerged, including family socioeconomic status (SES), parents' time spent on gendered household tasks, parents' time spent with children, and the sex constellation of sibling dyads and (3) to assess the implications of family patterns of gender role attitudes for conflict between family members. The present study was intended to fill a gap in the literature on gender role attitudes and family dynamics. As proposed within a family systems perspective, families are composed of subsystems that are interrelated ( Cox & Paley, 1997 Minuchin, 1985) and, as such, understanding of one subsystem in the family is incomplete if the processes that operate in other subsystems are not considered. This approach is likely to limit our understanding of the way in which family members' gender characteristics are connected. ![]() Although the importance of gender role attitudes in family dynamics has been of interest to researchers for several decades (e.g., Benin & Agostinelli, 1988 Ruble, Martin, & Berenbaum, 2006 Thompson & Walker, 1989), the gender role attitudes of family members-mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers-are typically studied in adults and children separately, or within single (i.e., marital or parent-child) dyads. ![]()
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