Research on Relationship Between Sex Sterotypes and Psychosocial Adjustment for Chinese Subjects

Objective: To explore the relationship between sex role and psychosocial adjustment of the Chinese people. Methods: More than 300 subjects were administered the Sex Role Adjective Rating Scale, Self-Experience Inconsistency Scale, Behavior Inhibition Scale and SCL-90, and relations between levels of psychosocial adjustment and sex stereotypes were compared. Results: Masculine and Feminine scores positively correlated with lower psychosocial adjustment, with androgynous the lowest, feminine and undifferentiated the middle, and masculine the best. Conclusion: In Chinese culture, androgynous have lower psychosocial adjustment compared with masculine and feminine individuals. Because of the limitation of adjective ratings, the masculine and feminine characteristics are confused with the results of the questionnaire assessment.