The Chameleon Syndrome: A Social Psychological Dimension of the Female Sex Role

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard C. Rosen ◽  
Carol S. Aneshensel
Psychotherapy ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Steinmann

Sex Roles ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 917-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie M. Yockey
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Haskell

Some single Caucasian undergraduates of Protestant religious preference, 115 men and 105 women, were tested to find correlates of, and to compare social-psychological to demographic variables in predicting, subjects' desired family sizes. Men had a mean desired family size of 2.04 children and women, 1.91 children. Women seem more accepting of childless families than men, perhaps perceiving new attractiveness in careers. Men and women wanting small families are less religious and are from smaller families. These men are more anxious and lower in need achievement, and the women have a less traditional sex-role self-concept. Women may see larger families as confirming a traditional sex-role, while men may see them confirming an achievement-oriented, possibly traditional, male role. Demographic variables, which best predict desired family size, may represent the continued influence of subjects' family backgrounds. However, social-psychological variables may also become important desired family-size influences as women enter their early twenties.


1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline McCulloch

This article addresses the problematic nature and implications of fellowship in and for communitarian theory, as illustrated by the writings of William Morris and Peter Kropotkin. The first part examines the descriptive and prescriptive components of fellowship and its role in Morris's and Kropotkin's theories. A discussion section then addresses problems arising from this dual nature of fellowship. In particular, an analysis of its social-psychological dimension on the one hand and its moral dimension on the other suggests a tension between them, inadequately recognized by communitarians, concerning the size of the appropriate communal unit. The paper concludes by suggesting a way in which this tension might be accommodated, if not resolved, drawing on the insights of conservative localism as well as the socialist universalism advocated by Morris and Kropotkin.


1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan F. Rappaport ◽  
David Payne ◽  
Anne Steinmann

The concepts of man's ideal woman and woman's ideal woman were evaluated for 45 married and 45 dating couples drawn from a university community. Responses on the Inventory of Female Values indicated that married couples did not have more male-female consensus than did the dating couples for either concept. For both married and dating couples the discrepancy focused on the issue of what a man looks for in a woman.


1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Wichstrøm

SYNOPSISThe characteristics and concurrent predictors of eating problems were identified. Ninety-seven per cent of a representative sample of Norwegian adolescents (N = 11315) completed a questionnaire containing a 12-item version of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and measures of a large number of physiological, psychological and social factors previously suggested to be of aetiological importance. Social class, drug use and indicators of ‘the model child’ (high grades, high occupational aspirations and much homework) were not related to eating problems. Logistic regression analyses identified perceived obesity as the strongest associated factor, followed by gender, depression, excessive exercise and unstable self-perceptions. In addition, adopting idols with perfect bodies, body dissatisfaction, low self-worth, feminine sex-role orientation, lack of parental care, early pubertal timing, age and number of alcohol intoxications all added to the probability of eating problems. About 6% perceived themselves as obese in spite of subnormal BMI. Such misperceptions increased the risk of high scores on EAT.


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