The Sex-Role Attitudes of Three Generations of Women Journal Articles

abstract

• This study investigated the attitudes toward women held by three generations of 43 females college students, their mothers, and their maternal grandmothers. Attitude was assessed by the 55-item Attitude Toward Women Scale (A WS) (Spence & Helmreich, 1972). Students were the most liberal in their attitudes and grandmothers were the most conservative, with the attitudes of the mothers in the middle reflecting slightly more conservative attitudes than the students. Significant familial relationships were found between student-mother and mother-grandmother A WS scores, whereas the A WS scores of students and grandmothers were not related. Age and education predicted A WS scores, accounting for 30%0 of the variance for the total sample. Age was negatively related, and educational level positively related to liberal attitudes.

authors

• Dambrot, Faye H
• Papp, Mary E
• Whitmore, Carly

status

• published 

publication date

• September 1984

has subject area

• 1701 Psychology (FoR)
• 1702 Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Social Psychology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin  Journal

keywords

• Psychology
• Psychology, Social
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0146167284103015

start page

• 469

end page

• 473

volume

• 10

issue

• 3