Compares reactions of 152 male and 152 female heterosexual college students to the same imagined coercive sexual act initiated by a male or female acquaintance. Reactions of both sexes are discussed, and implications for the study of coercive relationships are considered. (SLD)

Examines how women's body-image experiences relate to their own gender attitudes and ideologies. Responses from 122 undergraduate women reveal minimal relationships between body-image attitudes and either feminist identity or adherence to traditional gender beliefs at individual/stereotypic or societal levels. Male-female social interactions…

Examines the role that valuing physical appearance, striving for success in multiple roles, and insecure parental attachment are related to eating disorder symptoms. Responses from 156 undergraduate women support the relationship between the Super Woman model (desire to achieve perfection in multiple and often contradictory roles) and the presence…

Examined the effects of level of resistance and type of sexual behavior on judgments regarding sexual aggression on a date. Findings from 195 undergraduates who read one of six vignettes describing a date in which unwanted sexual behavior occurred, reveal significant differences between levels of resistance and significant but smaller differences…

Uses a multidimensional approach to explore occupational gender type for 100 occupational titles. Occupational images were primarily structured on two orthogonal dimensions: prestige and gender type. Findings from a sample of 125 undergraduates support the multidimensional approach. Also, even though the prestige and gender-type factors were…

Obtained 460 college students' perceptions of mother's employment-child rearing patterns and employment motives. Results show that continuously employed mothers (CEMs) were perceived as less communal and less were positively evaluated. CEMs were also seen as less communal if their employment was for fulfillment rather than financial necessity.…

Investigated the effects of educational intervention upon perceptions of sexual harassment. Results from 96 subjects reveal that educational intervention impacted perception of sexual harassment, with literature interventions showing superiority over video. Gender differences in sensitivity to sexual harassment in favor of females prior to…

Assessed traditional and nontraditional women's and men's perceptions of ideal people in terms of personality traits and physiques. Findings from 80 male and 80 female undergraduates show that both traditional and nontraditional males and females favored a mesomorphic body type for males, androgynous for females. Nontraditionalists preferred…

Examines attitudes about and exposure to sexually explicit materials for 663 predominantly Caucasian college students (52.4% males and 47.6% females). Most agree on a general definition of pornography and think that sexually explicit materials should be available to adults. College students do not seem more liberal than the general population.…

Assessed prosocial and stigmatic reactions towards HIV- infected individuals based on mode of disease transmission. Findings from 227 college students reveal HIV-infected women were held less accountable than men and HIV-infected IV drug users were held more accountable and garnered less sympathetic reaction. Results are discussed in relation to…

Identifies possible predictors of psychological abuse in nonmarital heterosexual romantic relationships. Responses from 175 undergraduate women reveal 11% claiming psychological abuse as well as more instances of partner behaviors characteristic of psychological abuse. Abused individuals were more likely to have lower self-esteem, had parents'…

Examines the effect of stereotypically masculine and feminine teaching styles on college students. Results indicate that students prefer the feminine style, and that students learn significantly less from a female using the masculine style than from a male using the feminine style. (FMW)

Two studies involving 151 male and 103 female college students tested the hypothesis that women are more likely than men to focus on themselves and their moods when in a depressed mood, leading to longer periods of depressed mood. Results support the hypothesis. (SLD)

Studies gender role perceptions of 3,300 college students, of whom 81% were Caucasian. Results show 2,990 students preferred an androgynous Ideal Woman. Women also preferred an androgynous Ideal Man, but men preferred a masculine sex-typed Ideal Man. Men's self-perceptions were androgynous; women's were sex-typed. Findings suggest little…

Examines how modeling, grade in school, gender, and attitudes toward women relate to sexist or nonsexist language usage in high school students. Analyses of questionnaire responses from 144 high school students reveal main effects for gender, year in school, and condition on nonsexist language use. Females used less sexist language than males, and…