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Gender Role and Social Identifications: The Two Major Factors to Shape Turkish Women
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Erden-Imamoglu, Seval – Education, 2013
The process of being a woman starts with biological gender but it is shaped by learning the social gender roles. Besides social gender role; age, education, marriage, and motherhood supply social roles and attributions and they have an impact on women identification and their interpersonal relationships. The aim of the study is to investigate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Role, Females, Adults
The Relation of Sex Role Stereotyping to Body Image.
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Guy, Rebecca F.; And Others – Journal of Psychology, 1980
Findings suggest that the male mesomorph is clearly sex-typed masculine, while the female ectomorph is clearly sex-typed feminine. The remaining male and female body types appear to be "androgynous." (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Androgyny, Body Image, Females
Masculine Instrumentality and Feminine Expressiveness: Their Relationships with Sex Role Attitudes and Behaviors.
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Spence, Janet T.; Helmreich, Robert L. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1980
The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) largely measure socially desirable instrumental (masculine) and expressive (feminine) traits which have limited relationships with sex role attitudes and behaviors. The literature does suggest that the traits have important implications separate from sex role behaviors.…
Descriptors: Adults, Androgyny, Individual Psychology, Personality Measures
Childhood Tomboyism and Adult Androgyny.
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Burn, Shawn Meghan; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1996
Female college students (n=194) completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory and a 12-item index of tomboyism. The hypothesis that childhood tomboyism would be positively related to adult androgyny was not supported, but the hypothesis that tomboyism would be related to adult masculinity was. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Androgyny, Children, College Students
Sex-Role Identity and Self-Esteem in Female Graduate Nursing Students.
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Gauthier, Joyce; Kjervik, Diane – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1982
A study of masculinity and femininity characteristics and levels of self-esteem of female graduate nursing students found that students in high masculine/low feminine and high masculine/high feminine categories had higher self-esteem than students in low masculine/low feminine and low masculine/high feminine categories. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Adults, Females, Femininity, Graduate Students
Factor Structure of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and the Personal Attributes Questionnaire.
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Gross, Ruth; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
The Bem Sex-Role Inventory was more promising of independent measurement of constructs related to masculine-feminine identity but lacked purity. Low scorers on Bem masculinity were penalized because of items related to maturity. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Rating Scales, Comparative Analysis, Factor Structure
Female Career Commitment (A Life-Span Perspective). Special Report.
van Rooyen, J. – 1981
A study that examined the personality and environmental factors affecting South African female career interest and career commitment at different life phases resulted in development of a model of vocational behavior. Selected for the study sample were 111 graduated white women employed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adult Development, Adults, Age