Toward Renewed Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity: Measuring Significant Psychological Differences between Young Men and Women’s Subjective Experiences in Their Romantic Relationships

Nicolas Gabbay, Marie-France Lafontaine and Claude Lamontagne

International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2011, vol. 3, issue 2, 200

Abstract: The present study focuses on newly conceptualized and observed significant differences between men andwomen regarding their subjective experience of their intimate relationships. The experimental paradigm wasbased on a new theory of masculinity and femininity developed by Lamontagne (2010), proposing one respectivefactor per dimension. This study (1) re-evaluates Lamontagne’s initial findings using a modified qualitative tooland a new quantitative measure- The Questionnaire of Objectality and Subjectality (QOS; Gabbay, 2010); (2)verifies the QOS’ psychometric properties; (3) evaluates inter-sex differences on proposed factors; and (4)examines complementarity of femininity and masculinity between romantic partners. The modified qualitativetool, the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI; Bem, 1974), and the QOS were administered to 134 individuals.Findings supported a theoretically coherent factor structure. Subscales demonstrated good reliability and theexpected correlations with the BSRI. Gender differences were qualitatively and quantitatively significant. Withincouples, partners’ relative femininity and masculinity were complementary.

Date: 2011
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