The influence of parental gender roles beliefs on early children's gender role behaviors in China

This study aims to explore the differences in gender role behaviors of different genders in early childhood and to explore the impact of parental gender role beliefs on the development of children’s gender-role behaviors. This study plans to adopt a quantitative study, and select a kindergarten from China to study about 100 children aged 3-6. This research needs parents to complete a questionnaire including three parts: 1) The basic information collection is to collect participants’ background information; 2) The “Pre-School Activities Inventory scale” (PSAI) is to assess children’s gender-role behaviors; 3) The “Gender Role Beliefs Scale” (GRBs) is to assess parental gender-role beliefs. Through the results of the questionnaire, this study will specifically analyze children's different gender role behaviors and the relationship between parents' gender-role beliefs and children's gender role behaviors.