The Good Girl Grows up: Gender and Self–Esteem

Turkel, Ann Ruth

doi:10.1521/jaap.1.2000.28.1.147

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“…Finally, an individual's gender certainly affects self-perceptions. Beginning at birth, boys and girls experience gender socialization from multiple sources such as parents, peers, teachers, and the media (Furnham & Mak, 1999; Leaper, 2000; Leaper, Anderson, & Sanders, 1998; McHale, Crouter, & Tucker, 1999; Turkel, 2000). Levy (1999) found that toddlers possess great awareness of gender-typed categories, particularly the stereotypes of their own sex.…”

Section: What Factors Are Related To Changes In Self-beliefs?mentioning

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The self-system during childhood and adolescence: Development, influences, and implications.

Jacobs¹,

Bleeker²,

Constantino

2003

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

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Research on the development of the self-system is briefly reviewed, with a special focus on major themes and issues related to childhood and adolescence. Important tasks and characteristics of the self-system that emerge during infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, and adolescence are described, helping to illustrate the numerous factors that influence changing perceptions of the self. Relationships between the self-system and social agents also are described, showing the influence of schooling and parental involvement on the development of the self. Examples from the authors' research on the relationships between gender and the development of self-beliefs are reviewed. They include examples of atypical development throughout the article, and conclude with a discussion regarding the implications of developmental research for clinical practice.Conceptions of self change dramatically during childhood and adolescence. Asking a 5-year old girl to describe herself might elicit a response such as "I'm a girl and I have blonde hair." When asked the same question 10 years later, she is more likely to say "I'm energetic and outgoing. I'm a good student and fun to be around most of the time, but I can be difficult." What develops that might lead to the changes in this young girl's description of herself?

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Section: What Factors Are Related To Changes In Self-beliefs?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The self-system during childhood and adolescence: Development, influences, and implications.

Jacobs¹,

Bleeker²,

Constantino

2003

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

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Gender difference in self-esteem of Hong Kong Chinese with cardiac diseases

Tam²,

Man

et al. 2003

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research

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Self-esteem is an indicator of a person's subjective quality of life due to its close relationship to a person's behavioural competence, positive self-experience, and sense of self-actualization. The present study aimed to investigate the basis of self-esteem in people with cardiac diseases, according to gender, after their cardiac surgery. The findings showed that there were prominent gender differences in the subjects' self-esteem. Women (aged<60) showed statistically significant higher ratings in the importance of 11 life events importance and the satisfaction of three life events than men. The study also found cultural uniqueness: Hong Kong Chinese (both men and women) with cardiac diseases generally indicated that social (interpersonal) self-concept dimensions were more important than achievement (personal) self-concept dimensions in their life perception. These findings are noteworthy for setting optimum goals of rehabilitation apart from return to work.

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From Victim to Heroine: Children's Stories Revisited

Turkel

2002

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

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The need to escape reality and the taste for adventure with the unknown fills a universal need for both adults and children. Fairy tales have a powerful grip on the imagination because they are homespun versions of myths and have passionate intensity without epic grandeur. The happy ending of fairy tales reflects gender stereotyping because the heroine usually does very little except sit, wish, and wait for marriage. She has no control over her destiny and no active involvement in selecting or planning her future. These heroines are really passive victims. Sexism was once rampant in children's books. The Oz books, with their independent, courageous, and active heroine were way ahead of their time. The advent of women's liberation has led to a reappraisal of the female in folk literature. Anthropologists have now discovered stories of admirable women who were strong characters in their own epic dramas.

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The Good Girl Grows up: Gender and Self–Esteem

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References 6 publications

The self-system during childhood and adolescence: Development, influences, and implications.

The self-system during childhood and adolescence: Development, influences, and implications.

Gender difference in self-esteem of Hong Kong Chinese with cardiac diseases

From Victim to Heroine: Children's Stories Revisited

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