Gender-Role Attitudes and Behavior Across the Transition to Parenthood

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-28

  Katz Wise, Sabra L ^a   Priess, Heather A ^a   Hyde, Janet S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

division of labor; gender role attitudes; identity salience; parenthood; transition to parenthood

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76449090041     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017820     Document Type: Article

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