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Sex Role Patterns in an Irish Student Sample as Measured by the Bem Sex Role Inventory (Comparisons with an American Sample).
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Ryan, Gerry; And Others – Sex Roles, 1987
Presents findings about sex roles in 171 male and 180 female university students in Ireland who were examined by the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and discusses the validity of this test. The distribution of subjects on sex-role types showed a larger percentage of androgynous males and undifferentiated females in the Irish sample than in American…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Femininity, Foreign Countries
Sex Role Development as a Function of College Expression.
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Lyons, Deborah S.; Green, Samuel B. – Sex Roles, 1988
To evaluate the effect of college experience on androgyny, 139 freshmen and 57 senior women completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), and other tests. The results did not support the hypothesis that women become more masculine in college. However, the seniors did obtain significantly lower scores than freshmen on the BSRI Femininity scale.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Androgyny, College Freshmen, College Seniors
The Effect of Gender-Schematic Processing on Decisions about Sex-Inappropriate Sport Behavior.
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Matteo, Sherri – Sex Roles, 1988
Sex-typed subjects express concerns about the gender appropriateness of a sport more often than androgynous and undifferentiated subjects. Moreover, they rate gender-based factors as more important to their decisions than do the latter two groups. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Athletics, Attitudes, Behavior Standards, College Students