title: Clinical judgements of self-dramatisation. A test of the sexist hypothesis.
abstract: It has been claimed that the diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder is inherently sexist. To estimate the extent to which psychiatrists are influenced by sexist prejudice in their judgements about self-dramatization (the central trait in the histrionic cluster), we conducted a study in which male and female subjects rated the degree of self-dramatization portrayed in videotaped vignettes. The results did not support the sexist hypothesis that dramatic behaviour would more often be attributed to a woman than to a man, especially by male raters.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012737:Sex Factors; D014743:Videotape Recording