Sex-roles of Ideal Opposite Sexed Persons for College Males and Females
- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 46 (5) , 519-521
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4605_13
Abstract
Relationships between sex-roles as measured by the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) and the ideal sex-role of persons of the opposite sex as measured by a modified BSRI were investigated for 169 college males and 204 college females. The distributions of sex-roles were different for men and women, as were the distributions of ideal sex-roles of opposite sexed persons. Androgynous (A), feminine (F) and masculine (M) men identified F women as ideal, while undifferentiated (U) men identified U women as ideal. M women preferred M men, and U women preferred U men. Effects of ideal sex-role of the two sexes on sexual attraction were discussed.Keywords
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