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The Relationship between Adult Occupational Preferences and Childhood Gender Nonconformity among Samoan Women, Men, and Fa’afafine
Ist Teil von
Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.), 2016-09, Vol.27 (3), p.283-295
Ort / Verlag
New York: Springer US
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Quelle
EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Previous research has found that sex differences in occupational preferences are both substantial and cross-culturally universal. Androphilic males tend to display “gender-shifted” occupational preferences, with relatively female-typical interests. Past research has overwhelmingly relied on Western samples; this article offers new insights from a non-Western setting. Known locally as
fa
’
afafine
, androphilic males in Samoa occupy a third-gender category. Data were collected in Samoa from 103 men, 103 women, and 103 fa’afafine regarding occupational preferences and recalled childhood gender nonconformity (CGN). A substantial sex difference was observed in the occupational preferences of men and women (
d
= 2.04). Interestingly, women and fa’afafine did not differ in their preferences (
p
= 0.89), indicating a complete gender inversion of occupational preferences in the latter
.
Although there was no correlation between women’s CGN and masculine occupational preferences, there was a significant correlation (
r
= −0.62) between these variables in both men and fa’afafine. Among males (both men and fa’afafine), increased CGN was associated with preference for feminine occupations. The present research corroborates past findings and furnishes support for the conclusion that female-typical occupational preferences are a cross-culturally invariant aspect of male androphilia.