THE IMPACT OF GENDER ROLES ON THE USE OF SUBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVES IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIES IN MOTHER-CHILD DYADS: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY

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2025-10-1

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Kalkan İnan, Fatma Şeyma

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This study investigates how maternal gender role traits—specifically masculine and feminine qualities—influence children’s gender role development, use of subjective perspectives, and age of memory recall in autobiographical memory. Using a longitudinal design across two time points, the research explores developmental changes in memory narratives and examines differences by child gender and school level. Drawing on gender schema theory and social interactionist models of memory development, this study addresses gaps in the literature regarding how gendered parental traits influence children’s narrative identity. Participants included mother-child dyads from 61 provinces and 185 schools, with children ranging in age from 8 to 18 years. Hierarchical regression analyses examining the impact of maternal gender-role traits on child gender-role traits indicated that maternal masculinity was the strongest predictor of both child masculinity and femininity, particularly among girls. Structural equation models revealed that child age, child gender, and child masculinity were significant predictors of children’s subjective perspectives and age of memory recall. Maternal use of subjective perspectives also significantly predicted children’s use of subjective perspectives in middle school for happy memories and in both middle and high school for sad memories. These findings provide insight into the role of maternal influence in the emergence of gendered patterns in memory elaboration, contributing to a deeper understanding of the socialization of autobiographical memory and identity formation.

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autobiographical memory, subjective perspectives, gender-role, masculinity, femininity, age of memory

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/116128

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