Comparison of perceived characteristics and gender appropriateness of dragonboat between dragonboaters and non-dragonboaters

• Main Author: Haque, Nur Adlin.
• Other Authors: Leng Ho Keat
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social influence
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52160
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sex-typing is the transformation of male and female into masculine and feminine (Bem, 1981), and sports are sex-typed based on their characteristics and participants (Koivula, 2001). Society’s stereotyped expectations of gender allude to perceptions of gender appropriateness of activities, which in...