ABSTRACT
Significant differences turned up in most of psychologists' factors, and in the main they are sufficiently consistent with trends that have been observed independently in other samples to justify a number of broad tentative generalizations about masculine and feminine patterns of personality organization. The feminine self-concept tends also to possess greater internal consistency. If the situation is truly reversed at the college level, this would indicate a rather interesting sex difference with respect to the stages in the life cycle that are maximally stressful— or stages in which the masculine and feminine life styles are maximally adaptive. One may prefer to alternate between markedly different modes of behavior. In the highly effeminate male, psychologists find a failure to realize all the potentialities associated with the masculine role. This is most likely to occur in a man who is afraid of asserting himself for some reason or who is convinced that he is basically incapable of functioning adequately as a man.
