Students from single-sex schools are more gender-salient and more anxious in mixed-gender situations: Results from high school and college samples.

ABSTRACT: Gender segregation exists in all walks of life. One of the most common forms of institutionalized gender segregation is perhaps single-sex schooling. Because schooling experience has important influence on students' psychosocial development, interest in gender-segregated education has been reviving over the globe. Skeptics of single-sex schooling have suggested that such schooling may increase students' gender salience (awareness of gender in categorizations), reduce opportunities for mixed-gender interactions, and increase mixed-gender anxiety, but little evidence has been found. It is critical to explore how single-sex schooling is associated with these psychosocial outcomes in adolescents and young adults because they are in the developmental stage when the desire and need to establish

SUBMITTER: Wong WI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286141 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature