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Masculinity (M) and femininity (F) were related to multiple dimensions of self-concept (SC) for responses to the: Bem Sex Role Inventory and the Self Description Questionnaire III (SDQ-III) by 898 Canadian university students (61 % female) in Study 1, and Australian Sex-Role Scale and the SDQ-II by 1,858 Australian high school students (49 % female) in Study 2. In Study 1, subjects' significant others were asked to provide ratings of subject SCs. In Study 2, students in Sydney (Australia) were followed from grade 7 through grade 11. Androgyny theory predicts that both M and F contribute to SC, but previous research, relying on undifferentiated SC measures, has found no unique contribution by F. These two studies show that both M and F contributed to the prediction of well-difterentiated facets of SC. Consistent with a new model of MF/SC relations, the differentiated additive androgyny model, th