Creativity and Imagery in Men and Women

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1255-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Forisha
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Creative Ability ◽  
Sex Role Stereotypes ◽  
Creative Capacity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Creative Production

This study investigated the relationship between creativity, imagery, and sex-role orientation in men and women. Instruments measuring creativity, creative production, imagery, and sex-role orientation were administered to 163 students enrolled in introductory psychology. The results showed that creative ability and vividness of imagery were related in women but not in men, whereas creative ability and creative production were related in men but not in women. Creative ability correlated with femininity whereas creative production correlated with masculinity. The author concluded that: (1) men and women show differing patterns of cognitive functioning in the creative process; and (2) men and women differ in the utilization of their creative capacity possibly due to the influence of sex-role stereotypes.

Exploring the Relationship Between Sex-role Orientation and Social-sexual Effectiveness

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Nelson ◽  
Travis Martin ◽  
Deena Oaks ◽  
Rebecca Stuver ◽  
Rick Wright
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
The Relationship

SEX-ROLE ORIENTATION AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Davidson ◽  
Donna L. Sollie
Keyword(s):  
Role Theory ◽  
Marital Adjustment ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Dyadic Adjustment ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theory Interpretation

The relationship between sex-role orientation and marital adjustment was investigated. Using a sample of 112 married couples, husbands and wives separately completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. The hypotheses tested were based on the assumption that an androgynous sex-role orientation, which incorporates both instrumental and expressive capacities, would be most positively related to self and spouse's marital adjustment, while an undifferentiated orientation would be least related. Results indicated that in general both androgynous and sex-typed individuals and their spouses were significantly higher in marital adjustment than were undifferentiated individuals and their spouses. In addition, spousal sex-role types were found to be related and couples in which both partners were classified as undifferentiated reported the lowest levels of marital adjustment while androgynous couples and sex-typed couples reported greater levels of marital adjustment. The results were discussed in relation to their support for a symbolic interaction/ role theory interpretation of the association between sex-role orientation and marital adjustment.

Sex-role Orientation and Psychological Well-being: A Critique of the Masculinity Model

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Forshaw ◽  
Diana Shmukler
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

As a model of the relationship between sex-role orientation and psychological well-being, the masculinity model has proved more successful than either the androgyny or the congruence models. In this article, it is, nevertheless, argued that the model has many shortcomings and limitations which need to be addressed by future research. The central criticisms of the model are that it fails to provide a theoretical understanding of its own success, cannot infer causality and represents an oversimplification of psychological life.

Gender and Sex-Role Differences in Young Adult Reactions towards “Newborns” in a Pretend Situation

1992 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 727-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Demarest ◽  
Filitsa Glinos
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Semantic Differential Scale ◽  
Newborn Baby ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Baby Doll

104 college students were asked to fill out a questionnaire on sex-role orientation, act out a scene as a parent with a newborn baby (doll), rate their attitudes toward the baby using a semantic differential scale of 19 adjective pairs, and write an open-ended statement about the baby's future. Analysis indicated few differences in how men and women reacted to or described boy and girl babies and most of the variability in scores could be accounted for by interactions involving sex-role orientation. Sex-stereotyped women typically gave ratings similar to those given by androgynous women while sex-stereotyped men, when they differed from androgynous men, generally gave less positive ratings.

Is Dissonance a Factor in the Relationship between Sex-Role Orientation and Attitudes towards Women's Roles

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 859-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie A. Moore ◽  
Faith D. Gilroy
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The Relationship

Research has consistently indicated a positive relationship between a feminine sex-role and anxiety, and there have been suggestions that liberal attitudes towards women are also predictive of anxiety. The present study asked if these two variables operated independently or in conjunction with each other. It was proposed that perhaps a lack of congruency between one's sex-role and one's attitude toward women was more closely related to anxiety than either characteristic taken singly. The results did not support an hypothesis of congruency. Whereas feminine women acknowledged more trait-anxiety than did masculine or androgynous women and liberal women reported more anxiety than traditional ones, these variables seemed to relate independently to anxiety rather than in conjunction with each other.

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