The study reports the findings with 210 Chilean male and female adolescents on a 12-point semantic differential scale. Comparisons were made for 7 concepts (men, my mother, women, my father, myself, the ideal man, the ideal woman). In view of the more highly differentiated sex roles in Latin America it was hypothetized that greater differences would be found in the Chilean subjects than in previously tested United States and German samples. The findings revealed significant differences between the boys’ and girls’ rating of the traits of men and women, but the differences were no larger than for the other national samples. Also, there was a greater tendency for the Chileans to idealize their parents and to fall short of what they considered the ideal for their sex, possibly a reflection of their slightly lower age as compared to the other samples.

Keywords:
Adolescents, Semantic differential, Latin America, Sex roles, Socialization
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1971
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