Date of Award:
5-1982
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Family Consumer Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
Gerald R. Adams
Committee
Gerald R. Adams
Abstract
Eighty-six children from the Utah State University Child Development Laboratories and Hillcrest Elementary School and their parents participated in the study.
The study focused on the use of attractiveness stereotyping used by children across four age groups. The study also analyzed the social transmission of attractiveness stereotypes from parents to their children.
The study included two parts: 1) a play-preference measure, and 2) a social attribution measure. The stimuli were sketches of twelve children, six toys and six girls. The sketches of children included attractive, unattractive, mesomorphic, endomorphic, handicapped and nonhandicapped children. In the study we found that parents and children use attractiveness stereotypes. Further, parents and children utilized a beauty-is-good assumption when evaluating the children's personalities and social tendencies from the sketches. Finally, we found that parents in this study expected their children to use a similar physical attractiveness hypothesis in their Social judgement.
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Recommended Citation
Hicken, Marianne White, "The Social Transmission of Attractiveness Stereotypes: An Investigation of Parental Expectations of Children's Behavior" (1982). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 2330.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2330
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