(1) Androgyny had a significant main effect on spatial ability, the more androgynous subjects being superior.
(2) Likewise, androgyny scores did not distinguish individuals in traditional careers from those in non-traditional careers.
(3) As in previous studies, men in this study scored higher than women on masculinity and androgyny and lower on femininity.
(4) There were significant correlations between age and both androgyny and n Ach scores, but no significant correlation between androgyny and n Ach scores.
(5) Data from a survey of 58 gay men and 58 lesbians are compared to college men and women on Spence and Helmreich's (1978) Personality Attributes Questionnaire measures of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny.
(6) Both groups showed a similar response pattern on the Embedded Figures Test but differed on the Draw-A-Person Test, The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, and the Bem Androgyny Scale.
(7) Occupation was found not to be a significant variable in explaining variance among the four groups on their masculinity, femininity, and androgyny scores.
(8) This study assessed possible influences of handedness, sex, familial sinistrality (FS), and self-rated androgyny on language laterality and on spatial and verbal test performances of 225 right-handers and 134 left-handers.
(9) There was a significant difference in psychological androgyny when comparing students by degree program.
(10) Each of the several M-F measures was related significantly to sexual orientation in the combined-sex group, and the combination of the MMPI Mf scale and the Bem Androgyny Score accounted for a small but significantly greater portion of the variance in self-rated sexual orientation than did the MMPI Mf scale alone.
(11) The study involved 338 students enrolled in all six allied health professions programs at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, who completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), a measure of psychological androgyny.
(12) With its teen address, deep androgyny and dancehall imperative, the song was very much in line with previous Bowie hits such as "John, I'm Only Dancing" and "The Jean Genie".
(13) Sex-role identity for both groups was near the adolescent girl norms for both Femininity and Masculinity, with virilized CAH girls showing slightly higher Androgyny scores.
(14) Androgyny measures differed only by gender, not by sexual orientation.
(15) Teased at school for her “skinny frame”, her angular androgyny is well received in the modelling world, and she appears on the covers of Vogue and Stern .
(16) These results indicate that the BSRI Androgyny score reflects a bipolar dimension.
(17) Related to the issue of sexism is the concept of psychological androgyny, or the lack of tendency toward masculine or feminine traits.
(18) Results indicated that students in all dental hygiene programs are most frequently sex-typed as feminine, with androgyny as the second most frequently sex-typed characteristic.
(19) Five hypothetical outcomes in androgyny research and an example involving actual data are presented.
(20) Androgyny scores (3 x biacromial breadth - bicristal breadth) were calculated for 66 female track and field five event categories and 76 female non-athletes.
Trait
Definition:
(v.) A stroke; a touch.
(v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(2) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
(3) There was no significant heterotic effect for any trait measured.
(4) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(5) The group studied scored within the normal range on the traits assessed by the EPQ, STAIX, and STAI.
(6) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
(7) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(8) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(9) It thus appears to determine all the traits associated with M protein.
(10) It may be assumed that this trait in the evaluation of mimics is due to a constitutional and morbid process.
(11) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
(12) The disorder illustrates the problem of variable expressivity of a trait which makes it difficult to predict the risk of having an affected child when only one feature of a syndrome is present in a relative of a fully affected patient.
(13) We interpret our results as bearing on state and trait issues in chronic schizophrenics.
(14) This gives us the foundations to consider the method of evaluation of phenetic distances between natural groups of animals for the set of non-metric threshold skeletal traits more suitable for detection of genetical differentiation of wild populations.
(15) The authors present a schema for conceptualizing psychiatric illness in terms of state and trait disorders.
(16) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
(17) When the effect of apo E polymorphism on serum lipid traits was estimated in boys and girls separately, variation at the apo E gene locus explained 10.4, 13.3, 13.3, and 13.5% of the phenotypic variance in serum total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apo B, and HDL-E levels, respectively, in boys, while in girls only the effect on HDL-E levels (19.3%) reached statistical significance.
(18) We found that the mean G-6PD values were statistically reduced in G-6PD heterozygous females; on the contrary the measurement of true G-6PD activity alone is not a good tool for discriminating heterozygous subjects with and without thalassemic trait.
(19) The following sources of evidence are discussed in order to examine the component parts-in terms of primary traits-of Eysenck's psychoticism scale, which he refers to as a 'superfactor' but which is here viewed as a composite or complex of primary traits.
(20) Although the clinical students compared to preclinical students attributed more positive personality traits to psychiatrists, students interested in taking up careers in psychiatry were few in both groups.