Factors Affecting Sex-Role Orientation of Adolescents in Addis Ababa
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2006-07
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Addis ababa univeresty
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescents' sex-
role development and cognitive factors such as age, grade level and academic ability, and
socialization factors such as TV viewing" traditionality of influential family member,
teachers influence, socio economic status, mothers' education, maternal involvement in
traditional masculine home chores, mothers' sex-role orientation, mothers' age, maternal
employment status, traditionality of mothers' job, mothers' religious commitment, fathers'
education, paternal involvement in traditional feminine home chores, and fathers' sex-role
orientation. Besides, their combined effects and their independent power to predict the sex-
role development of adolescents were assessed.
To achieve these aims, 178 families (students and their fathers and mothers) participated.
The required data were secured usink questionnaires. Additionally, focus group discussion
was employed. Then, the data collected were analyzed using Pearson's r, series of multiple
regression analyses and regression coefficients.
The result obtained disclosed that academic ability, TV viewing, mothers' sex-role
orientation, mothers' employment status, fathers' sex-role orientation, fathers education, andpaternal involvement in feminine household chores were significantly related to the sex-role
development of adolescents. In addition, the combined effects of all independent variables
were found to significantly predict the sex-role development of adolescents. However, the
most powerfol predictors of adolescents' sex-role orientation were found to be TV viewing,
followed by fathers' sex-role orientation and fathers' involvement.
The separate assessments for boys and girls revealed similar but some what different result.
They showed that the most influential predictors of boys' sex-role orientation were TV
viewing, fathers' sex-role orientation, paternal involvement and fathers' education, whereas
girls' sex-role orientation was highly influenced by TV viewing, fathers' sex-role orientation,
and mothers' sex-role orientation. (Details are presented in the result and discussion
sections.)
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