Felt Pressure to Conform to Cultural Gender Roles: Correlates and Consequences

Many children feel obligated by their parents and peers to behave in ways that are consistent with traditional gender roles of their culture, an obligation referred to as “felt pressure to conform to gender roles” (abbreviated as felt pressure) (Egan and Perry 2001). The current research was designed to examine links between children’s felt pressure and (a) their own responses to other peers’ “gender policing” and (b) their parents’ reports of...