Factors Affecting Sex-role Orientation Of Adolescents In Addis Ababa

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescents' sexrolerndevelopment and cognitive factors such as age, grade level and academic ability, andrnsocialization factors such as TV viewing" traditionality of influential family member,rnteachers influence, socio economic status, mothers' education, maternal involvement inrntraditional masculine home chores, mothers' sex-role orientation, mothers' age, maternalrnemployment status, traditionality of mothers' job, mothers' religious commitment, fathers'rneducation, paternal involvement in traditional feminine home chores, and fathers' sex-rolernorientation. Besides, their combined effects and their independent power to predict the sexrolerndevelopment of adolescents were assessed.rnTo achieve these aims, 178 families (students and their fathers and mothers) participated.rnThe required data were secured usink questionnaires. Additionally, focus group discussionrnwas employed. Then, the data collected were analyzed using Pearson's r, series of multiplernregression analyses and regression coefficients.rnThe result obtained disclosed that academic ability, TV viewing, mothers' sex-rolernorientation, mothers' employment status, fathers' sex-role orientation, fathers education, andrnpaternal involvement in feminine household chores were significantly related to the sex-rolerndevelopment of adolescents. In addition, the combined effects of all independent variablesrnwere found to significantly predict the sex-role development of adolescents. However, thernmost powerfol predictors of adolescents' sex-role orientation were found to be TV viewing,rnfollowed by fathers' sex-role orientation and fathers' involvement.rnThe separate assessments for boys and girls revealed similar but some what different result.rnThey showed that the most influential predictors of boys' sex-role orientation were TVrnviewing, fathers' sex-role orientation, paternal involvement and fathers' education, whereasrngirls' sex-role orientation was highly influenced by TV viewing, fathers' sex-role orientation,rnand mothers' sex-role orientation. (Details are presented in the result and discussionrnsections.)

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