Gender Differences in Stories of Violence and Caring by Preschool Children in Post-Divorce Families: Implications for Social Competence |
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Authors: | Timothy Page Inge Bretherton |
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Institution: | (1) School of Social Work, Louisiana State University, 216 Huey P. Long Fieldhouse, Baton Rouge, LA;;(2) Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
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Abstract: | Themes of violence and caring in the spontaneous play of preschool-aged children in response to a revised version of the Attachment Story Completion Task (Bretherton, Ridgeway, & Cassidy, 1990) were analyzed in relation to their social behavior in child-care settings. All children (n = 66, 39 boys) lived in post-divorce families, primarily in the custody of their mothers. Some story enactments of violence predicted negative social behavior in child-care for both boys and girls. Other story enactments were strongly associated with gender and did not uniformly predict social behavior, suggesting that gender socialization plays a significant role in children's play representations of violence and caring. Implications for children's development and the interpretation of children's play behavior are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Attachment Narratives Post-Divorce Preschool Children |
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