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Longitudinal relationships between protest participation and attitude toward the female role are examined in data from a 1967–1971 national panel of college students using Goodman's log-linear techniques for the analysis of two-attribute turnover tables. Contrary to earlier evidence, 1967 protest participation does not predict 1971 sex-role “modernism” for either females or males. Sex-role modernism in 1967 does predict protest participation by 1971. No evidence is found for expected three-variable interactions involving gender, sex-role attitude, and protest participation. These findings suggest a need for reinterpretation of earlier work relating student protest to the sex-role attitudes of college women.
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Orcutt, J.D., Bayer, A.E. Student protest and sex-role attitude change, 1967–1971: A log-linear analysis of longitudinal data. Sex Roles 4, 267–280 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287506
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