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Garnets, Linda; Pleck, Joseph H. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1979
This paper first reviews three different theoretical constructs concerning the psychological significance of sex-role-related characteristics in personality functioning: sex role identity, androgyny, and sex role transcendence. A new conceptual analysis concerning sex-typing, sex role strain analysis, is presented. Implications of this analysis…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Androgyny, Females, Males