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Sex Differences on Affective Dimensions: Continuing Examination
Author(s) -
Fischer Pamela C.,
Smith Randy J.,
Leonard Elizabeth,
Fuqua Dale R.,
Campbell James L.,
Masters Mark A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1993.tb02662.x
Subject(s) - psychology , promotion (chess) , sample (material) , social psychology , linear discriminant analysis , developmental psychology , affect (linguistics) , statistics , mathematics , communication , chemistry , chromatography , politics , political science , law
This study was designed to explore sex differences along several affective dimensions. A sample of 455 undergraduate students was administered several affective scales. A discriminant analysis was performed using the affective scales as discriminating variables and sex as the group variable. Significant sex differences were found on only two of nine affective scales, and the substantive significance of these differences seems to he minimal. The authors concluded that the promotion of faulty stereotypical beliefs should be abandoned in favor of increasingly complex inquiry in this area.