ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the whole area of gender roles using a fourth and final personality measure, the Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI). It focuses on the relationship between sex role, personality and religiosity. People who are strongly gender-schematic are more prone to see the world in 'masculine' or 'feminine' terms, and to try to keep their own behaviour consistent with stereotypical standards for their sex. The masculine and feminine items chosen by Sandra Lipsitz Bern for her scale were selected as being those items which were judged to be more desirable in American society for men rather than women and vice versa. Because the BSRI labels some attributes as either masculine or feminine it tends to make the student give cognitive and linguistic labels to attributes that are essentially human rather than typically sex-typed.
