Some Effects of Sex-linked Clothing Cue and Gender Schema on the Perception of Others -Research about student of Women s University-

성 관련 의복단서와 성 역할 정체감이 대인지각에 미치는 영향 -여대생을 중심으로-

  • 이미현 (배화여자전문대학 의상학과) ;
  • 임숙자 (이화여자대학교 가정과학대학 의류직물학과)
  • Published : 1996.12.01

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to find the roles of sex related clothes. The result of the study showed that he effects of sex related clothes were vast and strong. 1. It appeared that sex related clothes affected the wearer's outside aspects and also inferred the wearer's inside characteristics. Subjects judged the wearer's sex by sex related clothes, and confidence in judgement about the wear's sex also appeared stronger when cue of sex related clothes is more clear than being ambiguous. Judging the model's impression when subjects evaluated other's appearance and personality ,clothes affected it and clothes also had a strong impact when subject inferred others's characteristics such as ability and activity. Among the three kinds of sex related cue like men's clothes, women's clothes and ambiguous clothes, when a model wore men's clothes, he mode's impression judged by the subjects was most favorable and positive. But respondents sex role identity appeared that it didn't affected the judgement of the wearer's sex, evaluation and inference of wearer's characteristics. But this result didn't match with the gender schema theory.

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