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Comparative study of the factorial composition of femininity in alcoholic, schizophrenic and normal populations
Author(s) -
Thorne Frederick C.,
Pishkin Vladimir
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197701)33:1+<18::aid-jclp2270330104>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - psychology , femininity , ambivalence , developmental psychology , interpersonal relationship , population , human sexuality , interpersonal communication , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , gender studies , sociology , psychoanalysis , environmental health
The Femininity Study (Thorne, 1965) was administered to a total of 329 women, which included alcoholic females, Skidmore College students, University of Alberta students and institutionalized chronic undifferentiated schizophrenics. In the alcoholic women, the first five factors were labeled high interpersonal adaptability, heterosexual role inadaptability, female role ambivalence, female identification problems, and maternal role inadaptability. In the Skidmore College population, the first five factors were heterosexual role inadaptability, general female role inadaptability, physical and/or psychosomatic disabilities with low female self‐concepts, positive female self‐concepts and interests, and emancipated female role concepts positive female self‐concepts and interests, and emancipated female role concepts. In the University of Alberta women, the first five factors were heterosexual and general social inadaptability, heterosexual interests and adaptability, homosexual tendencies, conflictual sexuality, and emancipated female role concepts. In the institutionalized schizophrenics, the five factors were homosexual conflicts, heterosexual adaptabiligy, rejection of parental‐caretaker roles, promiscuity, and negative sexual self‐concepts.