title: Ideology and personality: Aspects of identity formation in adolescents with strong attitudes toward sex-role equalitarianism.
abstract: Middle-class adolescent boys and girls with strong attitudes for and against the sex-role ideology of the Women's Movement were administered a Q-sort to study two aspects believed to be related to identity formation: flexibility-rigidity and independence-dependence. A significant positive relationship was found, more strongly for independence than for flexibility and more strongly for girls than for boys. More favorable attitudes toward sex-role equalitarianism were associated with flexibility and independence. The strength of the associations varied with the nature of the Q-sort: ideal self, self as ideal member of opposite sex, and self as ideal to each parent.
authors.affiliation: , .
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Kirsch
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Shore
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Kyle