The role of parental education and type of family in shaping gender role attitude among adolescents

Abstract

The study explored the relationship of gender role attitude with selected variables among 400 adolescents, consisting of 200 boys and 200 girls.A self-designed demographic information sheet was used to collect personal details. The Modified Gender Role Attitude Scale (Pareek and Jain, 2019) measured the adolescents' different levels of gender role attitude. It was found that more number of the fathers of adolescents was educated up to high school while mothers had education up to primary school. Approximately half of adolescents belonged to joint families. The results revealed that the majority of adolescents were in a transitional phase of gender role attitude. Furthermore, the gender differences were observed across all three categories of gender role attitude. A greater percentage of boys were identified in the transitional category, whereas more girls demonstrated modern gender role attitude. None of the girl displayed traditional gender role attitude. Moreover, non-significant relationship of gender role attitude with parents education and type of family.