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GIRLS AND MATHEMATICS: PARENTAL VARIABLES
Author(s) -
STAMP PEGGY
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1979.tb02395.x
Subject(s) - psychology , masculinity , developmental psychology , subject (documents) , social psychology , identification (biology) , psychoanalysis , botany , library science , computer science , biology
S ummary . 234 girls taking A‐level mathematics were compared with 265 girls taking A‐level French. They were more reserved (A), stable (C), tough‐minded (I), radical (Q1) and group‐dependent (Q2) on the 16PF, and less feminine on the CPI Fe Scale. Girls in both subjects tended to identify with their fathers rather than mothers. Father identification is related to tough‐mindedness and masculinity on tests, but with typically feminine leisure activities. So is choice of mathematics. Subject choice is related to both parent's attitudes, but subject attitudes are related only to the mothers' attitudes. Double Mathematics girls were both more conventional socially and more radical mentally than either of the other groups.