Self-Esteem, Sex Roles, and Fundamentalist Religious Belief
Description:
Recent sex role research suggested that androgynous subjects demonstrated better adjustment than sex-typed subjects. Fundamentalist religious belief, however, has strongly supported sex role differentiation. This study hypothesized that the effect of appropriate sex role typing or androgyny on self-esteem would depend on religious belief. Although this hypothesis was not supported, a main effect on sex roles for females was obtained; androgynous females had a higher self-esteem level than femin…
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Date:
May 1980
Creator:
Zervopoulos, John Anthony
Partner:
UNT Libraries