Role IDENTIFIERS Moods

Four major formulations of the relationship between sex role orientation and successful adaptation have found support in the literature: a traditional sex role, androgyny, masculinity, and androgyny for females. The adaptive implications of sex role orientation wore examined on constructs reflecting intrapersonal functioning, i.e., ego identity achievement, mood, actual-ideal self-concept congruence, and cognitive complexity. Male (N-92) and female (N-94) college students completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Ego Identity Achievement Scale, a form of the Rep Grid, and a mood self-report item. To test among the four formulations and to allow a more precise comparison of the effects of gender and sex role on the adaptation measures, six groups were formed: masculine males, androgynous males, feminine males, masculine females, androgynous females, and feminine females. Although the masculine male grou