Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3): 301-309.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.03.06

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The Relationship between Single Parents' Sex-role Types and Children's Social Adaptation: the Mediating Role of Child-rearing Sex-role Attitude

CHEN Yijun, SHEN Yifeng, ZHANG Hailun   

  1. College of Education Soochow University, Jiangsu suzhou 215123
  • Online:2016-05-15 Published:2016-05-15

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Abstract: Under the help of the Suzhou Municipal Women's Federation and staffs of community and street office, this research used purposive sampling in Suzhou area and selected 458 single parent families. Structural equation modeling was used to explore the relations among single parents' sex-role types, child-rearing sex-role attitude and children's social adaptation, and to identify the mediating role of child-rearing sex-role attitude. The results indicated that:(1) Most single parents are in androgynous; child-rearing sex-role attitude of single parents were in upper middle level, and social adaptation of children from single-parent families were in upper middle level. There were significant differences among children's social adaptation varied by demographic variables, and furthermore registered residence and sex-role types interacted significantly in social adaptation.(2) Undifferentiated and feminine was significantly negatively correlated with social adaptation; undifferentiated was significantly negatively correlated with child-rearing sex-role attitude; and child-rearing sex-role attitude partly played mediation effect between sex-role types and social adaptation.

Key words: single parent, sex-role types, child-rearing sex-role attitude, social adaptation

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