Citation

Christensen HT. Am. J. Sociol. 1952; 57(6): 580-586.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1952, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/221045

PMID

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Abstract

A nation-wide sample of twenty-five hundred high-school students was studied to determine attitudes toward dating practices, with the following results: (I) Feelings of shyness in the dating situation were found to be rather common among both sexes. (2) Males were considered to be more careless, disrespectful, and sex-driven, while females were thought to be more inhibited, touchy, and money-minded. (3) Though males and females agreed on both self-criticisms and sex criticism, there were some differences-and these mainly in the direction of projected blame.