Development of a scale of tolerance toward the opposite-sex in fifth- and sixth- graders

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to develop a scale of tolerance toward the opposite-sex in fifth- and sixth- graders. A participant-friendly six-item scale was developed as it was originally designed for school children. The scale was found to be valid, showing higher scoring children actually had more friendships with classmates of the opposite-sex besides same-sex peers. There were no sex differences in the scale scores. It was concluded that school morale of children who had friendships with classmates of the opposite-sex along with same-sex peers was statistically higher than that of children who had more than one same-sex friend and no opposite-sex peers. The results, implicated the possibility of effects of opposite-sex relationships on school morale.View full abstract