MASCULININTY-FEMININITY AND ACCURACY OF SEX ROLE ASCRIPTION

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
John C. Touhey
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Taking ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Role Identification ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Sibling Effects ◽  
Femininity Scale

To examine relationships between masculinity-femininity, presence of same or opposite sex sibling, and accuracy of cross-sex role-taking, 92 male and female undergraduates classified the 20 items comprising Smith's (1968) Masculinity-Femininity Scale according the sex-role characteristics. Femininity and role-taking accuracy were positively correlated among males (p < 0.01) and negatively correlated among females (p < 0.02), but only one of the four comparisons for sibling effects reached significance (p < 0.05). It is suggested that greater role-taking accuracy among feminine scoring-males and masculine scoring-females results from problematic sex-role identification, and the findings are interpreted in terms of stabilizing mechanisms postulated by interpersonal congruency theory.

scholarly journals Effects of Intensive Meditation on Sex-Role Identification: Implications for a Control Model of Psychological Health

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-46
Author(s):  
Deane H. Shapiro ◽  
Johanna Shapiro ◽  
Roger N. Walsh ◽  
Dan Brown
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Control Model ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Role Identification ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Meditation Retreat ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Female Subjects

This study assessed the impact of a 3-mo. meditation retreat on 15 respondents' self-perceived masculinity and femininity. As hypothesized, male and female subjects, who on pretest perceived themselves to be more stereotypically feminine than normative samples, on posttest reported a significant shift to even greater endorsement of feminine adjectives and less endorsement of masculine adjectives.

Adults' Perceptions of Children's Independence and other Sex-Role Characteristics as a Function of Child's Gender Label

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 955-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Bell ◽  
Kay Hibbs ◽  
Thomas Milholland
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
Opposite Sex

Male and female college students were presented with a photograph labeled as a 5-yr.-old boy or girl and heard statements attributed to the child. They then rated the child on sex-role traits and responded to open-ended questions about the child. The primary findings involved sex of child by sex of adult interactions on ratings of independence and leadership: in both cases, same-sex children were rated higher than opposite-sex children. There was also some evidence that women having high contact with children rated the child more extremely on opposite-sex traits than did those with little contact.

Sex-Role and opposite-Sex Interpersonal Attraction

1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 855-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Lombardo ◽  
Patricia L. Francis ◽  
Susan Brown
Keyword(s):  
Sex Roles ◽  
Interpersonal Attraction ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Female Subjects

Androgynous, traditional, and undifferentiated male and female subjects indicated their attraction to three opposite-sex strangers who were described as having an androgynous, traditional, and undifferentiated sex-role. Subjects' ability to describe the sex-roles of the strangers was also measured. Androgynous strangers were most preferred, undifferentiated strangers least preferred. The least preferred undifferentiated strangers' sex-role was most accurately described. Subjects were least successful in describing the androgynous sex-role.

Experimental Alteration of the it Scale in the Study of Sex-Role Preference

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max R. Reed ◽  
Willotta Asbjornsen
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Stimulus Figure ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Preference Behavior ◽  
Role Preference ◽  
Experimental Alteration ◽  
Opposite Sex

The study explored some assumptions underlying Brown's It Scale and employed an altered administration of the scale to investigate sex-role-preference behavior in 50 boys and 48 girls of preschool age. Ss judged the sex status of Brown's It figure and Hogan's analogous Somebody figure. Neither figure was seen as ambiguous. The second part of the study employed stimulus figures for the It Scale which Ss had unambiguously designed male and female. The results disagreed with some previous findings. Preschool girls (a) equalled boys in making appropriate sex-role preference choices for a same-sex stimulus figure, (b) made more choices than boys of an opposite-sex stimulus figure, and (c) showed increased frequency of choices with age on the same task for both same- and opposite-sex figures, while boys showed no such change.

Sex-Role Stereotyping and Young Children's Divergent Thinking

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 1027-1033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol D. Lewis ◽  
John C. Houtz
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sex Role Stereotyping ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Similar Task

In two experiments 157 kindergarten and first-grade children were administered the Circles Subtest of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Boys and girls were given differential instructions to think of ideas typically thought of by members of the opposite sex. The contents of the children's ideas were analyzed and scored according to male- and female-dominant categories. Directions to generate ideas of the opposite sex inhibits performance, and considerable sex-role stereotyping of responses occurs at an early age. Without training on a similar task, however, boys appeared to be less able to follow directions and think of ideas typical of the opposite sex. Results are discussed in terms of the hypothesis that girls are more knowledgeable of the opposite sex-roles than are boys but are inhibited in the expression of this knowledge by cultural expectations.

Sex-Typed May Be Beautiful but Androgynous is Good

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith S. Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Stimulus Person ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sex Attraction ◽  
Opposite Sex

The effects of a stimulus person's sex-role orientation on both opposite-sex attraction and attribution of physical attractiveness were assessed. Male and female undergraduates, classified as sex-typed or androgynous according to their scores on the Bern Sex-role Inventory, were asked to form impressions of two members of the opposite sex on the basis of some of their responses to the inventory. The protocols were actually bogus and were contrived to represent a feminine female, a masculine male, and an androgynous person (same for both sexes). Each subject was given one sex-typed and one androgynous protocol and was asked to form impressions of both. The results indicated that both androgynous and sex-typed females liked the androgynous male significantly more than the masculine one, although males did not differentiate between the two females. Moreover, significantly greater physical attractiveness was attributed to the sex-typed stimulus person than to the androgynous one.

Testosterone and sex role identification in lesbian couples

1996 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 1033-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon M. Pearcey ◽  
Karen J. Docherty ◽  
James M. Dabbs
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Lesbian Couples ◽  
Role Identification

Social experience influences preferences in black ducks and mallards

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1434-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn M. Brodsky ◽  
C. Davison Ankney ◽  
Darrell G. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Social Preferences ◽  
Anas Platyrhynchos ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Captive Population ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Potential Mate ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Males And Females

The influence of social experience on the preferences for a potential mate in a captive population of black ducks, Anas rubripes, and mallards, Anas platyrhynchos, was examined. Birds were reared from hatching with conspecifics (i.e., female black ducks with male black ducks, female mallards with male mallards), or were cross-fostered with the other species (i.e., female black ducks with male mallards, female mallards with male black ducks). Preferences of individuals were tested in a chamber containing caged black ducks and mallards of the opposite sex. In over 90% (100/109) of the trials, males and females preferred the species that they were raised with since hatching, whether they were of the same species or not. These results demonstrate that social experience influences the social preferences of male and female black ducks and mallards.

Studies in male-female sex role identification.

Psychotherapy ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Steinmann
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identification ◽  
Female Sex

Psychological sequelae of infertility treatment: The role of gender and sex-role identification

1991 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1071-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Berg ◽  
John F. Wilson ◽  
Paul J. Weingartner
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Infertility Treatment ◽  
Psychological Sequelae ◽  
Role Identification
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