Therapist Judgments of Clients' Sex-role Problems
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Vol. 1 (2) , 115-124
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1976.tb00812.x
Abstract
Thirty therapists belonging to the Michigan Society of Consulting Psychologists rated the bipolar adjectives of the Sex-Role Stereotypes Questionnaire as to which pole was a problem for their average male and female clients. Female clients were viewed as too feminine on both socially desirable and socially undesirable adjectives. The problems of male clients were not viewed in sex stereotypic ways on the specific stereotypes. Asked directly, therapists reported that sex-role expectations create problems for both male and female clients. The findings contradict the hypothesis that therapists see the problems of women in therapy as nonconformity to the feminine stereotype.Keywords
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