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Child Development: Vulnerability And Resilience, Patrice L. Engle, Sarah Castle, Purnima Menon
Child Development: Vulnerability And Resilience, Patrice L. Engle, Sarah Castle, Purnima Menon
Psychology and Child Development
Many of the challenges facing children now are a function of changing times, including increase in urbanization, political violence, changing family forms, and in some areas decreased supplies of adequate food. This review focuses particularly on those changes in which children are the victims and which induce new threats for them, rather than on problems such as child disability or mental illness. The outcome variables of interest in this paper are dimensions of children's psychosocial development, including cognitive development, psychological adjustment and aggression, whereas the companion paper in this issue (Caldwell P., Child survival: vulnerability and resilience in adversity in …
Childhood Tomboyism And Adult Androgyny, Shawn Meghan Burn, A. Kathleen O'Neil, Shirley Nederend
Childhood Tomboyism And Adult Androgyny, Shawn Meghan Burn, A. Kathleen O'Neil, Shirley Nederend
Psychology and Child Development
Female university and community college students (N = 194) completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and a 12-item tomboyism index. Subjects were predominantly Euro-American (71%). A multiple regression analysis was used to test the prediction that androgyny and masculinity would significantly predict tomboyism scores. The proportion of variance in tomboyism accounted for by masculinity was significant, but once masculinity was entered, no additional predictive value was added by the entry of androgyny or femininity. Tomboyism was not related to the development of expressive qualities such as compassion and sensitivity to the needs of others. However, tomboyism was positively related to some …