Femininity, Masculinity, and Psychological Androgyny in Nurses

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The purposes of the present study were to delineate the personality of nurses in terms of femininity, masculinity and psychological androgyny compared with women in general and to compare nurses from different specialities in this respect. The method used was the Bern Sex Role Inventory, a questionnaire measuring sex‐typing. The questionnaire was answered by 202 persons (186 women and 16 men) representing six different specialities. No significant difference was found between the women investigated and women in general regarding the distribution of sex‐typing. But there were differences between the different specialities in that there were more androgynous women in technically orientated specialities and more feminine women in the person‐orientated ones. The men were too few to be regarded as representative of male nurses in Sweden.

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