THE EFFECTS OF AN INTERVENTION STRATEGY ON THE SEX-ROLE IDENTITY AND SEX-ROLE PREFERENCE OF FEMALE NURSING STUDENTS.
Contributors: Rutgers University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Education, Sociology of.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a 30-hour intervention strategy on the sex role identity and sex role preference of female nursing students and to determine if there was a difference in degree of influence with subjects having a similar sex role identity (feminine) but different sex role preference (feminine versus androgynous).

The sample was drawn from a trends and issues in nursing course at a community college in New Jersey. Subjects included 42 women, randomly assigned by sex-type to one of four groups (feminine identity - androgynous preference, experimental group 1; feminine identity - feminine preference, experimental group 2; feminine identity - androgynous preference, control group 3; feminine identity - feminine preference, control group 4).

A pretest - posttest expermental design was used to assess the effects of the experimental treatment, which included ten structure, three hour seminar sessions of consciousness raising and assertiveness training. A control treatment consisted of research related content.

Pre- and posttest categorical and masculine sex role identity and preference scores were analyzed using the Bem Sex Role Inventory. Chi square and t tests were used to assess within-subject effects, while analysis of covariance and post hoc t tests assessed among-subject effects.

Results revealed that sex role identity and preference could be changed by the experimental treatment but subjects' sex role preference influenced the degree and type of change. The experimental treatment had an effect in categorically changing sex role identity for the feminine identity - androgynous preference subjects and had a significant effect in increasing the mean masculine scores on the sex role identity measure for both experimental groups, however, the feminine identity - androgynous preference subjects differed significantly and had a greater increase in masculine scores. The experimental treatment had an effect in categorically changing sex role preference for the feminine identity - feminine preference subjects and had a significant effect in increasing the mean masculine scores on the sex role preference measure for both experimental groups, yielding posttest similarities. The control treatment had no effect.

Implications and recommendations for sex role theory were discussed in view of the limitations of the study.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-08, Section: A, page: 2992.

Thesis (ED.D.)--RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK, 1986.

School code: 0190.