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Gender Roles and Personality Disorders

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by Nozomu Ozaki and William E. Snell, Jr. - Southeast Missouri State University

Categories: Abnormal | Gender


Although many professionals have theorized that gender may be associated with personality disorders, there is little research that has directly assessed how gender roles affect personality disorders. The present study was conducted to discover whether gender-role phenomena, as assessed by the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ; Spence, 1993), the Multidimensional Gender Consciousness Questionnaire (MGCQ; Snell & Johnson, 2004), and the Masculine Behavior Scale (MBS; Snell, 1989), would be associated with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1994) personality disorders. Canonical correlation results showed that several gender role tendencies were directly associated with symptoms on 8 of the DSM-IV personality disorders. The discussion deals with the implications of the findings.

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