Sex role attitudes and role conflict among professional Puerto Rican women.
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Title
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Sex role attitudes and role conflict among professional Puerto Rican women.
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Identifier
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AAI9707080
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identifier
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9707080
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Creator
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Cofresi, Norma I.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Vera Paster
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Date
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1996
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical | Women's Studies | Psychology, Industrial | Psychology, Personality
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Abstract
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This study examined whether the subject women's adherence to traditional sex-role attitudes contributed to role conflict and psychological distress. The methodology of the study included ethnographic interviews; the administration of the Inventory of Attitudes Toward Men and Women (Coles, 1974); the administration of the Home-Career Conflict Inventory, (Farmer, Rooney, and Lissey, 1982); and the administration of the Brief Symptom Index (Derogatis, 1975).;The analysis of the relationship between sex-role attitudes and home-career conflict failed to yield a significant correlation. The analysis of responses to The Inventory for Men and Women confirmed that this sample perceived their mothers' sex-role attitudes to be significantly more traditional than their own. However, the difference in sex-role attitudes reported by the women for themselves in comparison to their mothers was not significantly correlated with home-career conflict. Additionally, the analysis of the relationship between home-career conflict and psychological distress failed to yield a significant correlation.;The qualitative analysis of the ethnographic interviews demonstrated the subjects included in their self-definition their roles as professional women and seemed to place a high priority in obtaining success in this area. However, these same women did not relinquish their familial roles, most stressed the importance of successfully combining professional and home lives. As mothers, these women are committed to their children's well-being; as wives, they demand companionship and collaboration from their mates, but are willingly flexible in order to preserve their marriages; in their sexuality, they are active and expressive; in their households, they value neatness and order; and though they acknowledge the importance of the opinions of others, they want to be admired for following their own standards. In their efforts to redefine their roles, the women seem to retain traditional aspects, such as, the importance of motherhood and of keeping an orderly home; modify aspects of the traditional role ideal, such as the importance of being flexible in a marriage; and reconstruct what they consider outdated sex-role practices, such as sexual passivity and sexual submission.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
