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Sex‐Role Orientation and Creativity in Young Females
Author(s) -
Cohen Stewart,
Gault Jan Vance
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7500300406
Subject(s) - creativity , psychology , developmental psychology , facet (psychology) , variance (accounting) , orientation (vector space) , social psychology , big five personality traits , personality , geometry , mathematics , accounting , business
In their professional attainment, men achieve to a significantly greater degree than do women. In examining this disparity, it has been argued that one important element in the comparison is the influence of early sex‐role development in women. This study investigated cross sex‐typing, one facet of sex‐role development, as a possible correlate of creative thought and productive thinking. The subjects for this study were 47 fifth‐grade girls. Participants completed a standardized measure of sex‐typing and were tested on standardized tests of creativity. All data were subjected to analysis of variance. The results indicated that creative performance was associated with high masculine and low feminine interests. These findings support those of previous investigators who have observed that the development of problem‐solving skills and the perpetuation of creativity in women appear to be related to sex‐role orientation.