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Abi-Karam, Norma; Love, Jim C. – 1984
According to previous research, achieving women display nontraditional personality traits and are influenced by affiliative motives. To examine the needs exhibited by professional women who have made significant achievements, 23 career women (physicians, attorneys, veterinarians, business women, politicians, and artists) completed the Edwards…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adults, Females, Individual Needs
Fischer, Shelley M.; And Others – 1985
Theorists have proposed very different patterns of adult age changes in masculine and feminine personality attributes; while some have predicted an increase in cross-sex typed individuals among older adults, others have predicted an increase in androgynous individuals. A study was conducted to further investigate adult age differences in levels of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
Hawkins, Brenda L. – 1983
Androgyny research has been hampered by a dependency upon traditional masculine and feminine sex roles for definition. Bakan's (1966) concept of agency and communion, which parallels masculinity and femininity, refers to behavioral competencies, involving a style or manner of interacting with the environment devoid of gender designations and…
Descriptors: Adults, Androgyny, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
