ABSTRACT
Recent research indicates clearly that women who attribute more masculine characteristics to themselves in completing sex role inventories have higher levels of personal adjustment in general and lower levels of trait anxiety in particular (Bander & Betz, 1981). Specifically, masculine males and females as well as androgynous males and females have been shown to be less anxious than feminine and undifferentiated males and females, demonstrating the importance of the inverse masculinity-anxiety relationship for women and men alike.
