title: Gender roles and human sexuality.
abstract: Personality differences among three self-ascribed render-role types (predominantly masculine, predominantly feminine, or no predominant orientation) were investigated within a group of 128 male and female homosexuals. The results, utilizing the Adjective Check List (ACL) and a specially designed questionnaire placed all groups within +/- one standard deviation of the mean on all ACL scales except abasement. A multiple discriminant analysis demonstrated that 10 of the ACL scales significantly discriminated between self-ascribed gender-role types. It was suggested that homosexuality may be appropriately conceived of as an alternate life style rather than a noslogical entity, and that gender-role may, in some instances, be more important than biological sex as regards one's self perceived personality characteristics.
mesh_terms: D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D012071:Religion and Sex; D012649:Self Concept