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MASCULINITY-FEMININITY IN RELATION TO ANXIETY AND SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE

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Gender Roles and Identity Studies Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth

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The major importance of achieving the role appropriate to one's sex is continually stressed in writings upon the personality development and adjustment of boys and girls. These writings range all the way from Freud (5), who invoked the concept of identification to explain the development of sex-appropriate behavior, to such writers as Havighurst (7) who have seen this process as one of the major developmental tasks facing the maturing individual. Although research literature on adjustment in the adult abounds in studies of masculinity-femininity, there has been very little examination of sex-appropriate behavior in childhood as related to adjustment. Because of the general significance of this concept, the writer has attempted to test the occurrence of certain relationships which might be hypothesized to exist between sex-appropriate behavior in children and indices of adjustment.

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