Abstract
Abstract This study investigated the reported return-to-task rates of girls and boys for a target individual and for themselves on hard and easy tasks. The return-to-task measure consisted of scenarios in which a male or female character performed a task that the character considered to be either hard or easy. Data were collected from 632 students in Grades 7, 9, and 11 at a junior and a senior high school in a large southwestern suburban school district. The return rates to hard and easy tasks for the subject and for the scenario character were compared for indications of self-presentation bias. The data revealed that both girls and boys preferred easy tasks over hard tasks and that girls had significantly higher (p < .01) return-to-task rates than boys did. Evidence of seif-presentation bias is present in an interaction in which subjects reported a significantly higher (p < .0001) rate of return to difficult tasks for themselves than for the scenario character, and a significantly lower return rate to e...
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