Androgyny and other measures of masculinity-femininity.

Abstract

Bern's measures of Masculinity (M), Femininity (F), and the absolute value of her androgyny measure were analyzed by the principal-components method with the Masculinity-Femininity scales from .the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the California Psychological Inventory, the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the Need for Heterosexuality scale of the Adjective Check List. Separate analyses for males and females yielded the same three orthogonal components for each sex (a) masculinity-femininity, (b) hetcrosexuality, and (c) androgyny. The three Masculinity-Femininity scales contributed to the first component. Heterosexuality and Bern's M and F scales contributed to the second.. Androgyny and M (for the males) and F (for the females) contributed to the third. The results support Bern's statements about androgyny and show that sex role traits are organized similarly for males and females.