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Social learning theory maintains that parents incluence sex development by modeling and reinforcing masculinity and femininity. To further examine the effects of parental modeling and reinforcement antecedents on sex role development, 103 college students (52 female, 51 male) who had been previously categorized as masculine, feminine, or androgynous, completed two Bem Sex Role Inventory Scales (BSRI), to assess perceptions of parents ' sex roles, and the Parent Child Relations Questionnaire II, to obtain retrospective reports of parent behavior in terms of love, attention, casualness, rejection, and demand. Parents (N=82) also completed the BSRI. An analysis of the results showed that for both the parental modeling and behavior variables thesocial learning theory was only modestly supported for females. While androgynous females perceived mothers to be more masculine than traditional feminine females, non