Gender role identity and gender intensification: Agency and communion in adolescents’ spontaneous self-descriptions
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Marie-Therese Schultes; Nora Maria Foerst; Marlene Kollmayer; Barbara Schober; Selma Korlat; Christiane Spiel
- Source
- Subject
- communion
stereotypes
Social Psychology
05 social sciences
Identity (social science)
050109 social psychology
Developmental psychology
Agency
gender role identity
Agency (sociology)
behavior and behavior mechanisms
Developmental and Educational Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
adolescents
Gender role
Psychology
Social psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
- Language
- English
In line with gender stereotypes, girls are expected to take on communal roles and boys to take on agentic roles. Based on gender intensification theory, the present cross-sectional study investigat...