Parenting Girls and Boys

By C. Leaper. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Contributors to Self-Perceived Competence, Satisfaction, Investment, and Role Balance in Maternal Parenting: A Multivariate Ecological Analysis (2003, background): “In terms of child gender, girls, for example, might engender easier parenting than boys on maturational or temperamental bases (Edwards & Liu, 2002; Leaper, 2002); therefore, parenting girls might heighten mothers’ self-perceptions of their own competence or satisfaction as parents.”
Relations Among Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health During Early Adolescence (2014, methodology): “Participants’ self-esteem and body image were also assessed using a 13-item measure used by Leaper and Brown (2008), adapted from Rosenberg (1979) and McKinley and Hyde (1996).”
Motivational Pathways to STEM Career Choices: Using Expectancy-Value Perspective to Understand Individual and Gender Differences in STEM Fields. (2013, background): “…provide experiences for their sons and daughters that are gender specific (Eccles, 1983; Jacobs & Bleeker, 2004; Jodl, Michael, Malanchuk, Eccles, & Sameroff, 2001), leading to different knowledge, expectations, preferences, and abilities (Leaper, 2002; Serbin, Zelkowitz, Doyle, & Gold, 1990).”
Disorders of childhood and adolescence: gender and psychopathology. (2008, background): “Parents discuss more emotional experiences and focus on different emotions with their daughters than with their sons (Leaper 2002).”
Gender Differences in Spatial Ability: Implications for STEM Education and Approaches to Reducing the Gender Gap for Parents and Educators (2017, background): “While individual families may differ, sons typically receive greater encouragement to pursue athleticism and organised sports than daughters (Leaper, 2005), and greater media attention and funding is given to male professional sports stars (Gill & Kamphoff, 2010).”
African American, White and Latino Fathers’ Activities with their Sons and Daughters in Early Childhood (2012, background): “Boys may be more sensitive to, and adhere more strongly to their fathers’ gender attitudes than girls (Leaper 2002).”
Parental styles, gender and the development of hope and self‐esteem (2008, background): “However, women are still largely responsible for the home and for child care (Leaper, 2002).”