Date of Award:
5-1973
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Child Development
Committee Chair(s)
Don C. Carter
Committee
Don C. Carter
Committee
Carroll C. Lambert
Committee
Jay Monson
Abstract
The effects of degree of sexual homogeneity, in groups of preschool children, on performance of a task were studied. Twenty four-year-old male children from the Utah State Child Development Laboratories served as subjects. Each subject performed the task of placing pegs in a pegboard during a sixty-second time interval; once in a group of opposite-sex peers; once in a group of same-sex peers; and once on a one-to-one basis with the author.
The findings seemed to indicate that preschool children's rate of task performance is not influenced by the presence or absence of peers of the same- and opposite-sex. Differences between scores of subjects under each experimental condition were not significant.
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Recommended Citation
Reardon, Ann K., "The Effects of Degree of Sexual Homogeneity in Groups of Preschool Children on Task Performance" (1973). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2456.
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