GENDER SOCIALIZATION FEATURES OF GIRLS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF SEX-ROLE MODELS

Abstract

The present stage of society existence characterized by serious problems in the gender identity development occurrence, which is associated with new social phenomena formation, such as adulthood devaluation, reduced sex segregation, promoting female masculinization, conflict between traditional and new forms of gender identity, father’s exception of child rearing process. All this leads to gender development deviations, distribution of neo-sexuality practices, surface of interpersonal relationships associated with psychological fear of intimacy, which determines the unwillingness of young people to parenthood, rejection of social successful women from motherhood and increase of infanticide frequency. In this regard, it becomes urgent consideration of gender identity development mechanisms in a sample of contemporary youth, which is the main reproductive potential of the country.
The problem of women gender socialization with different typological variations of gender-role personality structure is considered. The study was conducted using following methods: Structural Sex-role Scale (A. S. Kocharyan, E. V. Frolova), questionnaire «Adolescence about Parents» (L. I. Wasserman, I. A. Gorkova, E. E. Romitsina), Mann-Whitney U-test, correlation analysis (by Spearman’ method).
Research sample was comprised by 145 women in 19–22 years. All respondents were divided into 3 groups basing on the structural model of girls sex-role sphere definition: 1) girls with androgynous sex-role model — 67 persons (46 %), 2) girls with continuous- adjunctive sex-role model — 32 persons (22 %), 3) girls with continuous alternative sex-role model — 46 persons (32 %).
Questionnaire «Adolescence about parents» helped to identify mechanisms with the assist of which girls socialization with different types of sex-role models occurred and metaphorically mark image of the parent schooling strategies. The girls with androgynous model socialization occurred through identification with mother, a mother acts as a «endorsing, but inaccessible mother». Socialization of girls with continuous adjunctive sex-role model occurred primarily through identification with the father, father figure describes by metaphor of «controlling and demanding father». Socialization of girls with continuous-alternative sex-role model mainly implemented through identification with mother, a mother may be designated by metaphor of «not available mother».