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Sex Role Identity, Androgyny, and Sex Role Transcendence: A Sex Role Strain Analysis.
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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
Envisioning Oneself as a Leader: Comparisons of Women and Men in Spain and the United States
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Killeen, Lauren A.; Lopez-Zafra, Esther; Eagly, Alice H. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006
In an examination of aspirations for leadership in the United States and Spain, male and female students envisioned themselves as a chief executive officer, vice president, or mid-level manager in an industry with a feminine image (clothing manufacturing) or a masculine image (auto manufacturing). Although men and women perceived these roles as…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Occupational Aspiration
Working Men and Women: Inter- and Intra-Role Conflict
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Herman, Jeanne B.; Gyllstrom, Karen K. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1977
Hypotheses about sex differences and inter-social role and intra-work role conflict were tested in a university setting. Results indicate that inter-role conflict is primarily a function of the number of social roles held. There was no number of social roles by sex interaction. (Author)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Higher Education, Males