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Toward mental health: The benefits of psychological androgyny.

Lucia Albino Gilbert
- 01 Feb 1981 - 
- Vol. 12, Iss: 1, pp 29-38
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This article is published in Professional Psychology.The article was published on 1981-02-01. It has received 60 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Psychological intervention.

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Sex role orientation and self-esteem: a critical meta-analytic review.

TL;DR: The results of the meta-analysis were most supportive of the masculinity model and showed that the strength of observed relations between sex role orientation and self- esteem varied as a function of both the sex role measure and the type of self-esteem measure used in the studies.
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Sex-role orientation and psychological well-being: Two meta-analyses

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of 32 studies of the relationship between sex-role orientation and depression and general adjustment was conducted, with the best support for the masculinity model, with masculinity having a moderately strong relationship to both high adjustment and lack of depression and with femininity having only a small relationship to adjustment and no relationship to depression.
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Development and Validation of a Fear-of-Intimacy Scale

TL;DR: Two independent studies showed the Fear-of-Intimacy Scale (FIS) to be a valid and reliable measure of individuals' anxiety about close dating relationships as mentioned in this paper, and they used the FIS to measure individuals' fear of intimacy in close relationships.
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Attitudes and expectations about children with nontraditional and traditional gender roles

TL;DR: This article found that sissies were more negatively evaluated than tomboys, and women were more accepting of, and perceived more societal acceptance for cross-sex children, than were men.
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Masculinity, femininity, and androgyny viewed and assessed as distinct concepts.

TL;DR: In this article, the equivalence of the scales of the Bern Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) and the Extended Personal Attributes Questionnaire (EPAQ) was evaluated and the construct validity of the short BSRI and EPAQ as measures of well-being.
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The measurement of psychological androgyny.

TL;DR: A new sex-role inventory is described that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence.

TL;DR: Reading motivation reconsidered the concept of competence is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages as a way to develop your experiences about everything.
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Motivation Reconsidered: The Concept of Competence

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Masculinity & femininity: Their psychological dimensions, correlates, and antecedents

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of parental attributes and behavior on the development of achievement scales and achievement factors has been studied in the context of a study of the psychological dimensions of Masculinity and Femininity.
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