How Gender-Specific is Male Depression?

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
A.M. Moeller-Leimkuehler ◽  
M. Yuecel
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Gender Role Orientation ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Male Depression ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Male Type ◽  
The Impact

Although there is a large amount of clinical evidence for a male-type depression, scientific evidence is still limited, especially in non-clinical populations with regard to gender differences in symptoms.In a sample of college students (518 males, 499 females) the relationship between male depression, sex and gender-role orientation was examined. Contrary to expectations, female students had a greater risk of male depression than male students (28.9% vs. 22.4%; p< 0.05). Overall, depressive symptoms as well as male-type distress symptoms were more pronounced in females. In the subgroup of those at risk for male depression sex and kind of symptoms were unrelated. With regard to the impact of gender-role orientation, feminine and undifferentiated orientation predict significant higher risk of male depression (30.7% and 38.1%), independent of biological sex, and were associated with different symptom factors.The results suggest that male depression might not only be a male phenomenon, at least in college students, since young women have adopted male attributes. In conclusion, gender studies in depression should not rely on biological sex, but include measures of gender-related selfconcepts and normative orientations.

The impact of stereotyped perceptions of entrepreneurship and gender-role orientation on Slovak women’s entrepreneurial intentions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Adamus ◽  
Vladimíra Čavojová ◽  
Jakub Šrol
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Gender Role Orientation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Successful Entrepreneurs ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to investigate how congruence between the image of a successful entrepreneur and one’s own gender-role orientation affects entrepreneurial intentions (EI). Design/methodology/approach A total of 552 working-age adults (49.5% women) answered questions on gender-role orientation, perception of a successful entrepreneur, EI, antecedents of EI (perceived behavioural control (PBC), subjective norm (SN), attitude towards entrepreneurship), entrepreneurial self-efficacy and risk aversion. Findings Women reported a lower EI than men, and both male and female participants perceived successful entrepreneurs as masculine. In the final model, biological sex did not predict EIs. Rather, it was associated with the extent to which participants felt they resembled successful entrepreneurs, which, in turn, predicted greater levels of PBC, SNs and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, as well as greater EI. Originality/value The study is one of the first to study joint impacts of biological sex, gender and congruence on EIs.

Gender Role Orientation and Spirituality in Relation to Biological Sex

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale R. Fuqua ◽  
Jody L. Newman ◽  
Namok B. Choi ◽  
David B. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Gender Role Orientation ◽  
Biological Sex

Gender Role Orientation and Attitude toward Christianity: A Study among Older Men and Women in the United Kingdom

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Gender Role Orientation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Older Men And Women ◽  
Attitude Toward Christianity

A sample of 496 older men and women in England, mainly in their sixties and seventies, completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory together with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The data demonstrated that psychological femininity is key to individual differences in religiosity (as assessed by attitude toward Christianity) within the sexes and that, after taking gender role orientation into account, biological sex conveyed no additional predictive power in respect of individual differences in religiosity (as assessed by attitude toward Christianity). This finding is explained in terms of Eysenck's biologically-based dimensional model of personality which construes psychological masculinity and femininity as one of the seven constituent components of one of the three major dimensions of personality (psychoticism). This psychologically-based theory renders redundant sociologically-based socialization theories designed to account for differences in religiosity between the sexes.

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