Occupational Interest and Perceived Personal Success: Effects of Gender, Sex-Role Orientation, and the Sexual Composition of the Occupation

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1155-1159 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Collins ◽  
Maryellen Reardon ◽  
L. K. Waters
Keyword(s):  
Career Planning ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Occupational Interest ◽  
Sexual Composition ◽  
Personal Success ◽  
Design Analyses

Ratings of interest and perceived personal success in the masculine stereotyped occupation of lawyer were obtained from 112 male and 112 female college students in a 2 (sex of respondent) × 4 (percentage of females projected to be in the occupation) × 3 (sex-role orientation) design. Analyses indicated (a) the manipulation of percentage of females influenced occupational interest for male students and (b) sex-role orientation influenced interest for males and perceived personal success for both male and female students. The results were discussed in reference to the stage of career planning of the students.

Sex-Role Orientation of College Students and Their Same-Sex Parents

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 699-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy J. Karylowski ◽  
William Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Role Orientations ◽  
Same Sex Parents

The study examined similarities and differences between sex-role orientations of college students and their same-sex parents. College undergraduates filled out the Bem Sex-role Inventory twice: once to describe themselves and the second time to describe their same-sex parents. The inventory was also used to obtain parental self-reports. Compared to their perceptions of their same-sex parents, male students described themselves as more feminine and female students described themselves as more masculine. Also, male students described their fathers as less feminine and female students described their mothers as both less masculine and less feminine than the parents described themselves. Students' femininity scores correlated significantly with the parental femininity scores both actual and perceived, however, no consistent relationship was found for the masculinity scores. Androgynous students and students with the reversed sex-role orientation perceived their parents as androgynous and reversed, respectively.

Sex role orientation and assertiveness among female college students

1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubi Rodriguez ◽  
Michael T. Nietzel ◽  
Juris I. Berzins
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Female College

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.

The influence of sex and sex role orientation on sexual coercion

Sex Roles ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 689-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Poppen ◽  
Nina J. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation

Sex-Role Orientation and Attitudes towards Women: Differences among College Athletes and Nonathletes

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 803-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra L. Caron ◽  
D. Bruce Carter ◽  
Lloyd A. Brightman
Keyword(s):  
College Athletes ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation

Sex-Role Orientation among Incarcerated Women

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashton D. Trice ◽  
Michel Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Women Inmates ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Violent Offenders ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Female Offender ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Drug Offenders ◽  
State Prison

This study of 120 women inmates of a state prison showed that sex-role orientation was related to the type of offence committed by women but, contrary to the hypothesis about the “new” female offender, violent offenders were more traditionally feminine than financial and drug-related offenders. Drug offenders had high rates of undifferentiated ratings. Women became more traditionally masculine or feminine with length of incarceration. Women who had children were more likely to score as traditionally feminine.

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