Mental health and American Indian women's multiple roles.
The author's purpose in conducting this study was to identify the relationship of sex role orientation to indices of psychological well-being among 148 American Indian working women from the Midwest. Analyses revealed that the sex-typed group had significantly higher depression scores, higher role conflict scores, lower self-esteem scores and lower life satisfaction scores when compared with the cross-typed and androgynous groups. The undifferentiated group had significantly lower self-esteem scores when compared with the androgynous group. Further research is needed to understand how different sex role orientations support different roles that American Indian women occupy.
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Nursing 53201, USA.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012649:Self Concept; D013240:Stereotyping; D014922:Wisconsin; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*