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Androgyny In Liking And In Being Liked Are Antecedent To Well-Being In Pre-Adolescent Boys And Girls, William M. Bukowski, Bianca Panarello, Jonathan Santo
Androgyny In Liking And In Being Liked Are Antecedent To Well-Being In Pre-Adolescent Boys And Girls, William M. Bukowski, Bianca Panarello, Jonathan Santo
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The present study is a two-wave longitudinal study of the concurrent and prospective associations between patterns of same- and other-gender liking and well-being in a sample of 403 fifth and sixth-grade girls and boys from Montréal Québec, Canada that was used to examine Sandra Bem’s perspective that androgyny is related to well-being. In our study androgyny was operationally defined as (a) the combination of liking for same- and other-gender peers and (b) the combination of being liked by same- and other-gender peers. Well-being was indexed with a measure of the self-concept. Findings drawn from analyses conducted with structural equation modeling …