How is the Masculinity-Femininity and Gender Roles relating with Perceived Controls like Personal, Interpersonal, and Socio-political Control among Adolescents?

By : Maya Rathnasabapathy , Maharishi R

Page No: 215-223

Abstract
Our research paper finds the relation between sex role identity and spheres of control and how one may influence the other. For the sex-role identity we have used Bem Sex-Role Inventory which is a measure of masculinity-femininity and gender roles. For spheres of control we used The Spheres of Control Scale (SOC-3) developed by Delroy for measuring perceived control such as Inter-personal, personal and socio-political. This study adopted purposive sampling method and data was collected from 274 adolescent respondents of which 145 were male and 129 female. The results clearly indicated that there was no significant gender difference in terms of showing feminine characteristics. There was a significant difference between male and female in masculine characteristics. Results revealed that there was no significant difference between male and female in socio-political characteristics. In the context of personal control and interpersonal control there was no significant difference between male and female adolescents. Finally the feminine characteristics were positively correlated with socio-political and interpersonal characteristics. Masculine characteristics were not correlated with any of the features of the Spheres of Control.

Authors :
Maharishi R : Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Languages, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, Chennai – 600127.
Maya Rathnasabapathy : Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Languages, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, Chennai – 600127.